About Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
Steven Levitsky (b. 1968) and Daniel Ziblatt (b. 1972) are professors of government at Harvard and specialists in comparative politics — Levitsky on Latin America, Ziblatt on Europe. Their study of democratic breakdown became an international bestseller and a touchstone in debates over democratic backsliding.
Books by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
How Democracies Die
The most widely read account of how modern democracies fail — not by tanks in the streets but by elected leaders hollowing them out from within. Drawing on cases from 1930s Europe to contemporary Latin America and the U…
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The sequel to How Democracies Die, shifting focus from authoritarian leaders to the institutions that let determined minorities rule over majorities. Levitsky and Ziblatt argue that the U.S. Constitution's counter-major…
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