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How democracies die

Author: Steven Levitsky; Daniel Ziblatt
Publisher: New York : Broadway Books, [2019] ©2019
Edition/Format:  Print book : English : First paperback editionView all editions and formats
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"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,  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Steven Levitsky; Daniel Ziblatt
ISBN: 9781524762940 1524762946
OCLC Number: 1082520793
Description: 308 pages ; 20 cm
Contents: Fateful alliances --
Gatekeeping in America --
The great Republican abdication --
Subverting democracy --
The guardrails of democracy --
The unwritten rules of American politics --
The unraveling --
Trump against the guardrails --
Saving democracy.
Responsibility: Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt.

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"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. 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."--

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