How Democracies Die

from Read Between The Lines · host Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt

How does a democracy fall? Not with a military coup, but with a slow, deliberate erosion from within. In their groundbreaking book, How Democracies Die, Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt reveal the chilling playbook used by elected leaders to subvert the very systems that brought them to power. This is not a history lesson—it is an urgent and essential guide for recognizing the warning signs in our own time and understanding the fight to protect our future.

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