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How Democracies Die

Steven Levitsky

NEW YORK TIMES 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 the...

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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

The hosts referenced the title as a scholarly work by two professors, noting that it outlined historical guardrails against demagogues and helped frame their discussion on threats to democracy. They presented it as a valuable resource for understanding how democracies can erode.

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The discussion highlighted a book titled How Democracies Die, attributing it to two professors, Ziblatt and Levitsky, as a reference for historical guardrails against demagogues.

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There's a book called How Democracies Die written by two professors, Ziblatt and Levitsky, I think.

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