Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, two of the most respected scholars in the field of democracy studies, offer just that." Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading How Democracies Die. Seldom do books by political scientists make it onto the New York Times best sellers list, but this one has, a testament to its broad influence. Among the many scholarly attempts to reckon with the causes and consequences of Donald Trump’s rise, few have attracted popular attention on the scale of Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt’s How Democracies Die.

This happens most deceptively when in piecemeal fashion, with the election of an authoritarian leader, the abuse of governmental power and the complete repression of opposition. In How Democracies Die, Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt draw insightful lessons from across history - from the rule of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile to the quiet undermining of Turkey's constitutional system by President Recip Erdogan - to shine a light on regime breakdown across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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.

To order a copy for £14.44, go to guardianbookshop.com or call 0330 333 6846. Two Harvard professors explain the dangerous world we face todayDemocracies can die with a coup d'etat - or they can die slowly. • How Democracies Die, What History Tells Us About Our Future by Steve Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt (Viking, £16.99). Download Citation If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation manager of your choice. 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. We're already awash in public indignation--what we desperately need is a sober, dispassionate look at the current state of affairs.

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How Democracies Die - Kindle edition by Levitsky, Steven, Ziblatt, Daniel. Review: Polarized Societies and ‘How Democracies Die’ Two liberal political scientists offer an unintentionally clarifying lesson in how democratic politics unravels.