How Democracies Die – January 16, 2018
by Steven Levitsky (Author), Daniel Ziblatt (Author)
NEW YORK
TIMES BESTSELLER • “Comprehensive, enlightening, and terrifyingly timely.”—The
New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)
WINNER OF
THE GOLDSMITH BOOK PRIZE • SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE • NAMED ONE
OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • Time • Foreign Affairs •
WBUR • Paste
Donald
Trump’s presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we’d be
asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and
Daniel Ziblatt have spent more than twenty years studying the breakdown of
democracies in Europe and Latin America, and they believe the answer is yes.
Democracy no longer ends with a bang—in a revolution or military coup—but with
a whimper: the slow, steady weakening of critical institutions, such as the
judiciary and the press, and the gradual erosion of long-standing political
norms. The good news is that there are several exit ramps on the road to
authoritarianism. The bad news is that, by electing Trump, we have already
passed the first one.
Drawing on
decades of research and a wide range of historical and global examples, from
1930s Europe to contemporary Hungary, Turkey, and Venezuela, to the American
South during Jim Crow, Levitsky and Ziblatt show how democracies die—and how
ours can be saved.
Praise for
How Democracies Die
“What we
desperately need is a sober, dispassionate look at the current state of affairs.
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, two of the most respected scholars in the
field of democracy studies, offer just that.”—The Washington Post
“Where
Levitsky and Ziblatt make their mark is in weaving together political science
and historical analysis of both domestic and international democratic crises;
in doing so, they expand the conversation beyond Trump and before him, to other
countries and to the deep structure of American democracy and politics.”—Ezra
Klein, Vox
“If you
only read one book for the rest of the year, read How Democracies Die. . .
.This is not a book for just Democrats or Republicans. It is a book for all
Americans. It is nonpartisan. It is fact based. It is deeply rooted in history.
. . . The best commentary on our politics, no contest.”—Michael Morrell, former
Acting Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (via Twitter)
“A smart
and deeply informed book about the ways in which democracy is being undermined
in dozens of countries around the world, and in ways that are perfectly
legal.”—Fareed Zakaria, CNN
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