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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before its too latefrom the authors of How Democracies Die

Levitsky and Ziblatt write with terrifying clarity about how the forces of the right have coopted the enshrined rules to exert their tyrannyThe Washington Post

ONE OF THE CALIFORNIA REVIEW OF BOOKSTEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A NEWSWEEK BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

America is undergoing a massive experiment It is moving in fits and starts toward a multiracial democracy something few societies have ever done But the prospect of change has sparked an authoritarian backlash that threatens the very foundations of our political system Why is democracy under assault here and not in other wealthy diversifying nations And what can we do to save it

With the clarity and brilliance that made their first book How Democracies Die a global bestseller Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt offer a coherent framework for understanding these volatile times They draw on a wealth of examplesfrom 1930s France to presentday Thailandto explain why and how political parties turn against democracy They then show how our Constitution makes us uniquely vulnerable to attacks from within It is a pernicious enabler of minority rule allowing partisan minorities to consistently thwart and even rule over popular majorities Most modern democraciesfrom Germany and Sweden to Argentina and New Zealandhave eliminated outdated institutions like elite upper chambers indirect elections and lifetime tenure for judges The United States lags dangerously behind

In this revelatory book Levitsky and Ziblatt issue an urgent call to reform our politics Its a daunting task but we have remade our country beforemost notably after the Civil War and during the Progressive Era And now we are at a crossroads America will either become a multiracial democracy or cease to be a democracy at all