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How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our FutureBook

by Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt

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Francis Fukuyama
American political scientist at Stanford; author of The End of History and the Last Man and The Origins of Political Order.
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This book was published early on in the Trump administration, and it was a very useful warning. Maybe it was mainly useful to political scientists like me, because we used to have this idea of a 'consolidated democracy.' Basically, democratization is a one-way ratchet and once you became a democracy, you didn't fall back. What Levitsky and Ziblatt have done in this book is to show that that's not true, that you actually can have consolidated democracies that do decay and revert to authoritarian government.

Five Books interview on liberal democracy

2021-07-26·fivebooks.com ↗

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