01669nam a22002293 44500001000700000010002200007090001100029100004100040101000800081102000700089105001800096200005700114210003500171215001100206330098200217606004501199675001401244700003001258701002901288942001001317995011201327353995  a978-1-9848-2577-3  a353995  a20131002              frey50          aeng  aUS  a|||||||||||||  aHow Democracies DiefSteven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt  aNew YorkcBroadway Booksd2018  a385 p.  aDonald 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 they believe the answer is yes. Democracy no longer ends with a bang--in a revolution or military coup--but with a whimper: the slow, steady weakening of critical institutions, such as the judiciary and the press, and the gradual erosion of long-standing political norms. The good news is that there are several exit ramps on the road to authoritarianism. The bad news is that, by electing Trump, we have already passed the first one. Drawing on decades of research and a wide range of historical and global examples, from 1930s Europe to contemporary Hungary, Turkey, and Venezuela, to the American South during Jim Crow, Levitsky and Ziblatt show how democracies die--and how ours can be saved.  aDemocraţie, regim politic statal93903  a321.7=111  aLevitskybSteven 9137216  9137217aZiblattbDaniel   cBK04  002052022-06-0391318670bMGcMGeÎMfMG22066299g60.00hLSjMG_44099k321 L55o0rBKs60.00t2022-06-03