David Runciman

David Runciman (born 1967 ) is a British political scientist.

Life

David Walter Runciman is the son of Walter Runciman sociologist and a great-nephew of the historian Steven Runciman. He is heir of Viscount Runciman of Doxford.

Runciman studied after the visit of Eton College at the University of Cambridge. He initially wrote for the Guardian and now writes for the London Review of Books. He has specialized in his publications on current issues of democracy and political theory. He is a Fellow of Trinity Hall and teaches Political Theory at the Department of Politics and International Studies ( POLIS ) at the University of Cambridge.

Runciman is married to the historian Bee Wilson.

Writings (selection )

• Pluralism and the personality of the state. Cambridge University Press, 1997
• The politics of good intentions: history, fear, and hypocrisy in the new world order. Princeton University Press, 2006
• Political hypocrisy: the mask of power, from Hobbes to Orwell and beyond. Princeton University Press, 2008
• The confidence trap: a history of democracy in crisis from World War I to the present. Princeton University Press, 2013