How Democracies Die

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Levitsky, Steven , Daniel Ziblatt 저자(글)

Broadway Books · 2019년 01월 02일

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"Comprehensive, enlightening, and terrifyingly timely."
--New York Times Book Review

"Cool and persuasive... How Democracies Die comes at exactly the right moment."
--The Washington Post

Donald Trump's presidency has 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 more than twenty years 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--but with a whimper: the slow, steady weakening of critical institutions, such as the judiciary and the press, and the gradual erosion of long-standing political norms. The good news is that there are several exit ramps on the road to authoritarianism. The bad news is that, by electing Trump, we have already passed the first one.

Drawing on decades of research and a wide range of historical and global examples, from 1930s Europe to contemporary Hungary, Turkey, and Venezuela, to the American South during Jim Crow, Levitsky and Ziblatt show how democracies die--and how ours can be saved.

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저자(글) Levitsky, Steven

Steven 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. Ziblatt studies Europe from the nineteenth century to the present. 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.

저자(글) Daniel Ziblatt

하버드대 교수이자 정치학자. 19세기부터 현재까지의 유럽 민주주의와 권위주의 연구의 독보적인 권위자다. 저서 《보수 정당들과 민주주의의 탄생Conservative Parties and The Birth of Democracy》으로 2017년 미국정치학회가 주는 우드로 윌슨 상, 2018년 미국사회학회가 주는 배링턴 무어 상 등을 수상했다. 수년 동안 하버드대 학부 최고 인기 세미나 중 하나인 〈민주주의는 어디에서나 가능한가?〉를 이끌어오고 있으며, 〈뉴욕 타임스〉와 〈VOX〉 등 여러 매체에 글을 쓰고 있다.

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A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2018
A Time Best Nonfiction Book of 2018
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2018
A WBUR Best Book of 2018
A Paste Best Nonfiction Book of 2018
A New York Times Book Review Best Book Cover of 2018
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

"The best death-of-democracy book I read in 2018."
--Carlos Lozada, Washington Post

"Levitsky and Ziblatt show how democracies have collapsed elsewhere--not just through violent coups, but more commonly (and insidiously) through a gradual slide into authoritarianism.... How Democracies Die is a lucid and essential guide to what can happen here."
--New York Times

"If you want to understand what's happening to our country, the book you really need to read is How Democracies Die."
--Paul Krugman

"The defining political book, so far, of 2018."
--The Philadelphia Inquirer

"We're already awash in public indignation--what we desperately need is a sober, dispassionate look at the current state of affairs. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, two of the most respected scholars in the field of democracy studies, offer just that."
--The Washington Post

"Where Levitsky and Ziblatt make their mark is in weaving together political science and historical analysis of both domestic and international democratic crises; in doing so, they expand the conversation beyond Trump and before him, to other countries and to the deep structure of American democracy and politics."
--Ezra Klein, Vox

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ISBN	9781524762940 ( 1524762946 )
발행(출시)일자	2019년 01월 02일
쪽수	320쪽
크기	132 * 203 * 23 mm / 240 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어

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