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A review by moseslh
How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
4.0
I had been thinking a lot about the future of democracy, and whether liberal democracy would survive the 2020s, when I saw this book at the store and couldn't resist buying it. The authors, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, are political scientists who study how democracies collapse into authoritarianism. Over the past few years, they realized that the US was displaying many of the early warning signs (and, one imagines, that a book on that topic would be highly profitable).
I was already aware of much of what Levitsky and Ziblatt discuss in this book, but they articulated and framed it clearly and compellingly. They did present some useful context and insight that was new to me, particularly with their comparisons to other democratic countries that succumbed to authoritarianism or successfully resisted it.
I would definitely recommend this book to anyone thinking about the future of democracy or how to save it.
I was already aware of much of what Levitsky and Ziblatt discuss in this book, but they articulated and framed it clearly and compellingly. They did present some useful context and insight that was new to me, particularly with their comparisons to other democratic countries that succumbed to authoritarianism or successfully resisted it.
I would definitely recommend this book to anyone thinking about the future of democracy or how to save it.