Jonathan White is Professor of Politics at the London School of Economics. Based at LSE's European Institute, he has published widely on democracy and the politics of emergency. He has written for the Guardian and New Statesman, and received the British Academy Brian Barry Prize for Excellence in Political Science.
'Highly perceptive, engaging and somewhat startling ... lively, smartly-written, jargon-free ... deft and attractively written' - Jonathan Wolff 'Incisive, wide-ranging and thought-provoking, this book opens up new ways of seeing and thinking ... an important book that urgently needs to be read' - Lisa Appignanesi, OBE 'Exhilarating ... the health of a democracy lies not in what it thinks of itself now, but in the hopes it has for what's next' - Financial Times 'White is a scholar with radical commitments ... rigorous and expansive' - Oliver Eagleton 'How much time do we have? Jonathan White shows us that the politics of the last two centuries have all begun with this question. He gives us hope that democracy's answer has to be: enough time to make something better' - Quinn Slobodian, author