How Democracies Die

About the AuthorSteven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt are Professors of Government at Harvard University. Levitsky’s research focuses on Latin America and the developing world. He is the author of Competitive Authoritarianism and is the recipient of numerous teaching awards. . He is the author, most recently, of Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy.  Both Levitsky and Ziblatt have written for Vox and The New York Times, among other publications. Ziblatt studies Europe from the nineteenth century to the present

Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt are Professors of Government at Harvard University. He is the author, most recently, of Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy.  Both Levitsky and Ziblatt have written for Vox and The New York Times, among other publications. He is the author of Competitive Authoritarianism and is the recipient of numerous teaching awards. . Ziblatt studies Europe from the nineteenth

The bad news is that, by electing Trump, we may have already passed the first one. For readers of On Tyranny and Why Nations Fail, a bracing look at the demise of liberal democracies around the world—and a roadmap for rescuing our own.    The first few months of Donald Trump's presidency have 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 two decades 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&