POLIS Academic
David Runciman
Professor of Politics
Research Interests
Late-nineteenth and twentieth century political thought, theories of the state, various aspects of contemporary political philosophy.
Selected publications
The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from the First World War to the Present (Princeton, publication due October 2013).
‘Hobbes’s theory of representation: anti-democratic or proto-democratic?’, in Representation and Popular Rule ed. Ian Shapiro and Alexander Kirshner (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010)
Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008)
Representation (with Monica Brito Vieira) (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008)
‘The paradox of political representation’, Journal of Political Philosophy 15, 1 (2007), pp. 93–114.
The Politics of Good Intentions: History, Fear and Hyprocrisy in the New World Order (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006).
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- E-mail: dwr12@cam.ac.uk
- Tel: 01223 767256
- Address: POLIS
Research Interests:
Late-nineteenth and twentieth century political thought, theories of the state, various aspects of contemporary political philosophy