How Democracies Die Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt
SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
327

How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt Book Summary

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Comprehensive, enlightening, and terrifyingly timely.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)

WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITH BOOK PRIZE • SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • Time • Foreign Affairs • WBUR • Paste

Donald Trump’s presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we’d be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have spent more than twenty years studying the breakdown of democracies in Europe and Latin America, and they believe the answer is yes. Democracy no longer ends with a bang—in a revolution or military coup—but with a whimper: the slow, steady weakening of critical institutions, such as the judiciary and the press, and the gradual erosion of long-standing political norms. The good news is that there are several exit ramps on the road to authoritarianism. The bad news is that, by electing Trump, we have already passed the first one.

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

Praise for How Democracies Die

“What we desperately need is a sober, dispassionate look at the current state of affairs. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, two of the most respected scholars in the field of democracy studies, offer just that.”—The Washington Post

“Where Levitsky and Ziblatt make their mark is in weaving together political science and historical analysis of both domestic and international democratic crises; in doing so, they expand the conversation beyond Trump and before him, to other countries and to the deep structure of American democracy and politics.”—Ezra Klein, Vox

“If you only read one book for the rest of the year, read How Democracies Die. . . .This is not a book for just Democrats or Republicans. It is a book for all Americans. It is nonpartisan. It is fact based. It is deeply rooted in history. . . . The best commentary on our politics, no contest.”—Michael Morrell, former Acting Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (via Twitter)

“A smart and deeply informed book about the ways in which democracy is being undermined in dozens of countries around the world, and in ways that are perfectly legal.”—Fareed Zakaria, CNN

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Book Name How Democracies Die
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Partisan. From the reviews, it’s obviously a partisan book. (A.k.a., no objective truth)

How democracies die. No matter how many MAGAts send in their one star reviews, it won’t take away from the excellence and possible solutions that this book offers us during these awful times in America. So please ignore the angry, ignorant, and cultist Trumpers opinions and give these pages a well deserved turn.

How Democracies Die. I have been trying for months to understand what has happened in the US to bring us to the Trump presidency. This book is the first, of the many I have read, that brings it all together in a way that makes sense. It is scholarly, yet eminently readable. It emphasizes the role of informal norms in sustaining democracy—the written constitution is not enough —and describes the breakdown of these norms that started long before Trump. And it analyzes the extreme polarization in American politics today, both effect and cause of the breakdown of norms, in light of the ongoing impact of slavery and racism on the political history of American democracy. It all comes together in the final chapter of the book.

Once of. Those boring books that suggests because of a president they don’t like, democracy is ending or something. Sheesh! Conservatives were saying president obama was gonna declare martial law. This is the same type of stuff.

BACKWARDS. Sorry to say that this book has it all backwards. It’s the last administration that was authoritarian, not this one. Now, Americans get to be free again from government stifling small businesses to punishing us for drinking soda! We do not want globalism! We want freedom! Hello...that’s what America is all about! We are not like all the other countries who’s government runs the people. We are FREE! That’s why Donald Trump was elected!!!

Not perfect, but still a must-read. This book wasn’t perfect at predicting the future at the time of publication, but its look at the history of countries losing the consent of the governed and comparing to the US’s current state is quite useful.

Cute. Cute musings made by children. This book could have been written by a high schooler. It’s scrawled and overdramatic. It felt like I was reading a Facebook rant rather than an actual piece of literature.

What a croock. More whining by people that fear the end of their gravy train

If you watch FOX, this isn’t for you. If you’re looking for some policy by anecdote and shallow platitudes, this isn’t for you. If you want a read that challenges standard Americana with historical backup, this might be for you. No support the troops-bumper-sticker patriotism here. Great read on the philosophy of Democracy with present and past examples.

Beautiful and articulate!. Written from a place of knowledge and inquiry this book asks fundamental questions not about the current administration as much about the grand experiment that is the United States of America. Read this if you believe that knowledge mixed with action is more powerful than a gun, and that the big picture should drive your day to day little picture. Highly recommend.

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The How Democracies Die book written by Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt was published on 16 January 2018, Tuesday in the Political Science category. A total of 327 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.

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