How Democracies Die (2015)

How Democracies Die  (2015)

Drawing on decades of research and a wide range of historical and global examples -- from 1930s Europe to contemporary Hungary, Turkey, and Venezuela; also to the American South during Jim Crow -- Levitsky and Ziblatt show how democracies die and how ours can be saved.

In 2021, The Economist described it as arguably the most important book of our current era.

Author: Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
Published: April 15th, 2018
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