David Runciman, The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013), xxiii+408 pp., ISBN: 9780691148687
Todd Landman, Human Rights and Democracy: The Precarious Triumph of Ideals (New York and London: Bloomsbury, 2013), 192 pp., ISBN: 9781849663458