How Democracies Die File

You can purchase the book through Penguin Random House or find it at your local library, for example, through the Brooklyn Public Library . Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt, "How Democracies Die"

In How Democracies Die , Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt argue that modern democracies often erode slowly through elected leaders dismantling norms and institutions, rather than through violent coups. The authors emphasize that the survival of democracy relies on key, informal "guardrails" like mutual toleration and institutional forbearance. They also provide a framework for identifying authoritarian tendencies in politicians. How Democracies Die