TY - BOOK AU - Levitsky,Steven AU - Ziblatt,Daniel TI - How democracies die SN - 9780241381359 (pbk.) AV - JC423 .L422 2019a PY - 2019/// CY - London PB - Penguin Books KW - Democracy KW - Political culture KW - United States KW - Politics and government KW - 2017- N1 - Reprint. Originally published: 2018; Includes bibliographical references and index; Fateful alliances -- Gatekeeping in America -- The great Republican abdication -- Subverting democracy -- The guardrails of democracy -- The unwritten rules of American politics -- The unraveling -- Trump's first year: an authoritarian report card -- Saving democracy N2 - In the twenty-first century democracy is threatened like never before. Drawing on insightful lessons from across history -- from Pinochet's murderous Chilean regime to Erdogan's quiet dismantling in Turkey -- Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt explain why democracies fail, how leaders like Trump subvert them today and what each of us can do to protect our democratic rights ER -