Books by Daniel Ziblatt
“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...
Interviews where books by Daniel Ziblatt were recommended
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Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show
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Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could
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How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
by Daniel Ziblatt & Steven Levitsky -
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Twilight of Democracy
by Anne Applebaum -
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Peril
by Bob Woodward & Robert Costa
The Best Politics Books To Read in 2021, recommended by Larry Sabato
The Best Politics Books To Read in 2021, recommended by Larry Sabato
In many Western countries, citizens have long taken living in a democracy for granted. The last decade has changed all that, with fledgling democracies veering back to authoritarianism and even the most stable democracies being shaken by populist movements. Here, political scientist Larry J. Sabato turns the spotlight on the American republic, long a beacon for democracy around the globe, but now suffering its own internal turmoil. He recommends the best politics books to read in 2021, focusing on the United States.
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The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the World
by Larry Diamond -
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Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency
by Larry Diamond -
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How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
by Daniel Ziblatt & Steven Levitsky -
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Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition
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Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville
The best books on Liberal Democracy, recommended by Francis Fukuyama
The best books on Liberal Democracy, recommended by Francis Fukuyama
Even some of the world’s most authoritarian rulers continue to pay lip service to democracy and people’s right to vote for their leaders, but the days when many social scientists believed that all countries at a certain level of prosperity would eventually turn to liberal democracy are over, says Francis Fukuyama, now a Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute. Here, he recommends books to better understand liberal democracy, and what those of us lucky enough to live in one can do to protect our form of government.