Fateful alliances -- Gatekeeping in America -- The great Republican abdication -- Subverting democracy -- The guardrails of democracy -- The unwritten rules of American politics -- The unraveling -- Trump against the guardrails -- Saving democracy
The book highlights the degradation of the democratic institutions and norms in the United States since the Cold War. It begins by exploring the grounds for rise of authoritarianism around the world.
The list goes on and on and this book spells out each focal point. Although the United States has taken steps toward the end of democracy, this book reveals the danger signs of a democratic decline and the steps toward recovering democracy.
NOTE TO READERS: Again, this is a summary and analysis companion book, not the original How Democracies Die. We strongly encourage you to purchase the original text as well.
'Scintillating ... thought-provoking ... one of the very best of the great crop of recent books on the subject.' Andrew Rawnsley, Observer Democracy has died hundreds of times, all over...
Summary of Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt's How Democracies Die NOTE TO READERS: This is a summary and analysis companion book based on Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt's How Democracies Die.
How did a democratic government allow Adolf Hitler to seize power? In The Death of Democracy, Benjamin Carter Hett answers these questions, and the story he tells has disturbing resonances for our own time.
The book details the much deeper historical roots of the present-day assaults on civil liberties and democratic institutions. Democracy, the authors also argue, is much more than elections and the separation of powers.
The volume bridges the conventional divide between institutional and behavioral approaches to the study of American politics and incorporates historical and comparative insights to explain the nature of contemporary challenges to democracy.
Timely, rigorous, and accessible, this book is of compelling interest to civic activists, political actors, scholars, and ordinary citizens in societies beset by increasingly rancorous partisanship.
Mack Smith, Cavour and Garibaldi, 47–48. 78. The notion that this task—winning the approval of the newly annexed public—is a generic feature of nation-state formation that may take on various forms whenever a state expands its borders ...