Results for "Levitsky, Steven"

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the authors of How Democracies Die“[Levitsky and Ziblatt] write with terrifying clarity about how the forces of the right have co-opted the enshrined rules to exert their tyranny.”—The Washin... Read More about Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Comprehensive, enlightening, and terrifyingly timely.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITH BOOK PRIZE • SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • Time • Foreign... Read More about How Democracies Die

Bestseller del New York Times. C mo la democracia se ve trastornada por los populismos y qu v as hay para salvarla. Un an lisis alarmante que es tambi n una gu a para reparar una democracia amenazada por el populismo. La aparici n de distintos ejemplos de populismo en diferentes partes del mu... Read More about Cómo Mueren Las Democracias / How Democracies Die

Why the world's most resilient dictatorships are products of violent revolution Revolution and Dictatorship explores why dictatorships born of social revolution--such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam--are extraordinarily durable, even in the face of economic crisis, lar... Read More about Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism

Competitive authoritarian regimes - in which autocrats submit to meaningful multiparty elections but engage in serious democratic abuse - proliferated in the post-Cold War era. Based on a detailed study of 35 cases in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and post-communist Eurasia, this book explores the fa... Read More about Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes After the Cold War (Problems of International Politics)

Nearly four decades since the onset of the third wave, political parties remain weak in Latin America: parties have collapsed in much of the region, and most new party-building efforts have failed. Why do some new parties succeed while most fail? This book challenges the widespread belief that democ... Read More about Challenges of Party-Building in Latin America