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A bracing, revelatory go through the demise of liberal democracies across the world--and a street map for rescuing our own. Donald Trump's presidency has lifted a question that lots of folks never thought we'd be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have spent more than two decades studying the breakdown of democracies in Europe and Latin America, and they imagine the answer is yes. Democracy no more ends with a bang--in a revolution or military services coup--but with a whimper: the gradual, dependable weakening of critical establishments, including the judiciary and the press, and the progressive erosion of long-standing politics norms. The good news is that we now have several leave ramps on the path to authoritarianism. The bad media is the fact that, by electing Trump, we've already passed the first one. Drawing on ages of research and a variety of historical and global samples, from 1930s Europe to modern Hungary, Turkey, and Venezuela, to the North american South during Jim Crow, Levitsky and Ziblatt show how democracies die-and how ours can be kept.
