David Runciman

David Runciman

The Hon. David Walter Runciman (born 1967) is a British political scientist who teaches political theory at Cambridge University and is a fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge,[1] where he was educated following Eton College.[2]

He has worked as a columnist for The Guardian newspaper and written for many other publications.[3] He currently writes about politics for the London Review of Books.[4] His monograph The Politics of Good Intentions was adapted in part from his LRB articles.[5] His most recent book, Political Hypocrisy (2008), explores the political uses of hypocrisy from a historical perspective.[6]

Runciman is heir to his family's Viscountcy.[7] He is the great nephew of the historian the Hon. Sir Steven Runciman and his father, Viscount Runciman, Garry Runciman, is also a noted political scientist and academic,[8] who has also written for the LRB.

He specialises in the development of the theory of the modern state and on aspects of contemporary politics.[9]

David Runciman is married to the food writer Bee Wilson.

References

  1. ^ "Trinity Hall - David Runciman". Trinity Hall College official website. http://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/about/contact_directory_profile.asp?ItemID=628. Retrieved 8 February 2010. 
  2. ^ O'Reilly, Judith (1 September 2008). "David Cameron's reading list made me the dinner guest from Hell". The Times. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/article4634003.ece?print=yes&randnum=1151003209000. 
  3. ^ "The Politics of Good Intentions". Barnes and Noble. http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Politics-of-Good-Intentions/David-Runciman/e/9781400827121. 
  4. ^ "LRB: David Runciman". London Review of Books. http://www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/david-runciman. Retrieved 8 February 2010. 
  5. ^ Rowat, Alison (18 February 2006). "From Berlin to Baghdad David Runciman argues that there is little we haven't seen before in the new world order". The Herald. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/smgpubs/access/989276431.html?dids=989276431:989276431&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+18%2C+2006&author=Alison+Rowat&pub=The+Herald&desc=From+Berlin+to+Baghdad+David+Runciman+argues+that+there+is+little+we+haven%27t+seen+before+in+the+new+world+order&pqatl=google. 
  6. ^ Dunne, Tim (17 July 2008). "Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power, from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond". Times Higher Education. http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=402875&sectioncode=26. 
  7. ^ Crick, Michael (9 January 2008). "Happy families". BBC Newsnight blog. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/2008/01/happy_families.html. 
  8. ^ "Woman behind "soft" policy on cannabis has addict relative". Daily Mail. 15 July 2007. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-470719/Woman-soft-policy-cannabis-addict-relative.html. 
  9. ^ "David Runciman". University of Cambridge POLIS department. http://www.polis.cam.ac.uk/contacts/staff/drunciman.html. Retrieved 8 February 2010. 

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