#12 in Politics & society
How Democracies Die
- NYT bestseller · 4 weeks on the list, peaked at #8
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About the book
How Democracies Die is a 2018 comparative politics book by Harvard political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt about democratic backsliding, and how elected leaders can gradually subvert the democratic process to increase their power. The book examines the political systems in countries such as Venezuela, Russia, Turkey, Thailand, Hungary and Poland, and also offers stark warnings about the first Donald Trump presidency which, in the authors' view, imperils U.S. democracy.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.2 across 126 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 46% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Politics & society average of 8.0. That is how 8.1 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.8 | 17 | 14% |
| Hardcover | 8.3 | 109 | 87% |
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