Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt

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How Democracies Die (2015)

April 15th, 2018

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Drawing on decades of research and a wide range of historical and global examples -- from 1930s Europe to contemporary Hungary, Turkey, and Venezuela; also to the American South during Jim Crow -- Levitsky and Ziblatt show how democracies die and how ours can be saved.

In 2021, The Economist described it as arguably the most important book of our current era.

How Democracies Die  (2015)
What really matters is that we should all of us realize that we are guilty of inhumanity. The horror of this realization should shake us out of our lethargy so that we can direct our hopes and our intentions to the coming of an era in which war will have no place.

Dr. Albert Schweitzer, from his remarks on receiving the 1952 Nobel Peace prize (a year later, in 1953).