How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

Levitsky, Steven

How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future - UK Penguin 2019 - 312

How does a democracy die?
What can we do to save our own?
What lessons does history teach us?
In the twenty-first century democracy is threatened like never before. Drawing insightful lessons from across history-from Pinochet's murderous Chilean regime to Erdoğan'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.

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