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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 Ezra Klein Show

The hosts cited the book to illustrate the point that party gatekeeping once helped protect democracy from demagogues like Trump.

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The point that Levitsky and Ziblatt make in How Democracies Die, which is like a big book a couple of years ago, leads to the idea that parties once acted as a gatekeeper against demagogues.

— Episode: The Republican Party’s Decay Began Long...

Episode: The Republican Party’s Decay Began Long Before Tru...

The hosts cited the book to illustrate the point that party gatekeeping once helped protect democracy from demagogues like Trump.

"

The point that Levitsky and Ziblatt make in How Democracies Die, which is like a big book a couple of years ago, leads to the idea that parties once acted as a gatekeeper against demagogues.

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