How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

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.

on fivebooks.com · 26 Jul 20215yr