How Democracies Die

Zusatztext “Levitsky and Ziblatt show how democracies have collapsed elsewhere—not just through violent coups, but more commonly (and insidiously) through a gradual slide into authoritarianism. . . .  How Democracies Die is a lucid and essential guide to what can happen here.” — The  New York Times “The most important book of the Trump era was not Bob Woodward’s  Fear  or Michael Wolff’s  Fire and Fury  or any of the other bestselling exposes of the White House circus. Arguably it was a wonkish tome by two Harvard political scientists, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, published a year into Donald Trump’s presidency and entitled  How Democracies Die. ” — The Economist “If you want to understand what’s happening to our country, the book you really need to read is  How Democracies Die .” —Paul Krugman “Fair warning: reading Levitsky and Ziblatt will leave you very, very unsettled. They make a powerful case that we really and truly are in uncharted territory, living in a moment when the line between difficult times and dark times has blurred.” — Washington Monthly “Carefully researched and persuasive . . . the authors show the fragility of even the best democracies and also caution politicians . . . who think they can somehow co-opt autocrats without getting burned. . . .  How Democracies Die provides a guide for Americans of all political persuasions for what to avoid.” — USA Today “Scholarly and readable, alarming and level-headed . . . the greatest of the many merits of Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt’s contribution to what will doubtless be the ballooning discipline of democracy death studies is their rejection of western exceptionalism.” — The Guardian “[An] important new book.” —Nicholas Kristof, The  New York Times “The political-science text in vogue this winter is  How Democracies Die .” — The New Yorker “How Democracies Die studies the modern history of apparently healthy democracies that have slid into autocracy. It is hard to read this fine book without coming away terribly concerned about the possibility Trump might inflict a mortal wound on the health of the republic.... It is simplistic to expect boots marching in the streets, but there will be a battle for democracy.” —Jonathan Chait , New York magazine “The great strength of Levitsky and Ziblatt’s How Democracies Die is that it rejects the exceptionalist account of US democracy. Their lens is comparative. The authors say America is not immune to the trends that have led to democracy’s collapse in other parts of the world.” — Financial Times “A powerful wake-up call.” —Foreign Affairs “The big advantage of political scientists over even the shrewdest and luckiest of eavesdropping journalists is that they have the training to give us a bigger picture.... [Levitsky and Ziblatt] bring to bear useful global and historical context . . . [showing] the mistakes democratic politicians make as they let dangerous demagogues into the heart of power.” — The Sunday Times “If this were fiction, the thrills of this book would remind you of the thrills you had when you first read 1984 , It Can’t Happen Here , The Plot Against America and The Handmaid’s Tale . If this were fiction, you could lie in the sand and enjoy the read. But this book is not fiction. And this book is not just about the past. And this book is not just about other countries. [It] should be on your reading list this summer.” —Tufts Now “Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt offer one of the best forensic accounts available of the crimes against democracy in America.... The diagnosis is compelling, and thei...

Product details

• Authors: Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781524762940
• ISBN: 978-1-5247-6294-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 205 mm x 16 mm
• Subject: Non-fiction book