In light of the public and scholarly debates on the challenges and problems of established democracies, such as a lack of participation, declining confidence in

Democracy in Crisis explores one of the world's greatest failures of democracy in Germany during the so-called Weimar Republic, 1919–33—a failure that led t

Examines the economic, social, cultural, as well as purely political threats to democracy in the light of current knowledge.

The storming of the US Capitol building in January 2021 focused attention on the multiple threats facing contemporary liberal democracies. Beyond the immediate

The EU referendum in the UK and Trump’s victory in the USA sent shockwaves through our democratic systems. In Democracy and Its Crisis A. C. Grayling investig