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Book SynopsisTHE MUCH-ANTICIPATED FOLLOW-UP TO INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER HOW DEMOCRACIES DIE essential reading ahead of the 2024 US election
Just like their previous work, this book is concise, readable, and convincing' Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Democracy
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How has democracy become so threatened and what can we do to save it?
With the clarity and brilliance that made their first book, How Democracies Die, a global bestseller, leading Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt offer a coherent new framework for understanding the dangerous times we live in. They draw on a wealth of examples from the Capitol riots, to Edwardian Britain, from 1930s France to present-day Thailand to explain why political parties turn against democracy, and how to see when this will happen.
In this razor-sharp analysis, Levitsky and Ziblatt offer in particula
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An exceptionally perceptive and wide-ranging book . . . [that lays] out an ambitious fifteen-plank project of democratic renewal -- Lawrence Douglas * TLS *
Old democracies tend to last, and so do rich democracies, Levitsky and Ziblatt point out in this searing, unsettling, and essential new book, but American democracy, which is both old and rich, is dying. In Tyranny of the Minority, they explain why, and they explain, too, how to save it -- Jill Lepore * author of These Truths *
Provocative and readable -- David Runciman on How Democracies Die
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt are two of the most respected scholars in the field of democracy studies * The Washington Post *
