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How democracies die

Steven Levitsky (Author), Daniel Ziblatt (Author)
In the twenty-first century democracy is threatened like never before. Drawing on insightful lessons from across history -- from Pinochet's murderous Chilean regime to Erdogan's quiet dismantling in Turkey -- Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt explain why democracies fail, how leaders like Trump subvert them today and what each of us can do to protect our democratic rights
Print Book, English, 2019
Penguin Books, London, 2019
312 pages ; 20 cm.
9780241381359, 0241381355
1084729957
Fateful alliances
Gatekeeping in America
The great Republican abdication
Subverting democracy
The guardrails of democracy
The unwritten rules of American politics
The unraveling
Trump's first year: an authoritarian report card
Saving democracy
First published in the USA by Crown, New York 2018
First published in Great Britain by Viking 2018
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