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“This book looks at how democracies all over the world rose and fell, and what caused them to fall. Americans had an almost arrogant attitude that the collapse of democracy couldn’t happen here. Then it started happening here. And it’s still going on. Almost everybody on the Republican side repeats ‘the big lie’ (that Donald Trump won the 2020 election) as though it’s true. Levitsky and Ziblatt show us the symptoms to look out for and suggest how to restore health to democracies.” Read more...
“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 Ziblatt and Levitsky do in the book is give you a checklist you can go down of the different warning signs of a slide towards authoritarian government” Read more...
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Francis Fukuyama, Political Scientist
