How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future by Daniel Ziblatt, Steven Levitsky

4.11 AVERAGE

ollie_gore's review against another edition

5.0
challenging informative medium-paced

val_54's review against another edition

4.0
informative medium-paced

rolerunner's review against another edition

2.0
informative reflective medium-paced
Found this hard to get through. It kept jumping to examples in history to explain its points, which I know many would find useful but I found it quite jarring and a bit tricky to deduce the key points. Maybe the examples were too long, maybe it's just me, who knows.
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lolagracebooks's review against another edition

4.0
medium-paced
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claudiacricket's review against another edition

5.0
I thought this would be a bit of a slog but I was more engrossed than I expected. There’s a lot of history, a lot of precedent and a lot to be worried about and mad about. The book at times did make me question if it was perhaps too biased? Is there nothing that democrats/the left has done to help get us to where we’re at? Most of me wants to say no… but the critical reader gut reaction is that there’s a little something missing from this accounting. In any case, a fantastic book.

nettabscott's review against another edition

5.0
informative reflective medium-paced
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stefareads's review against another edition

4.5
informative reflective medium-paced
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cozycoterie's review against another edition

4.0
Kinda hard to read in March 2025 because things have just gotten so much worse, but still very informative about what brought these circumstances and ideas about how to veer things back to democracy 

katdot57's review against another edition

5.0
An excellent overview of how we in America got to where we are now, and what to do about it so we can restore democracy in the United States. Includes interesting case histories of what happened in other countries at various points in the 20th century.

april_mpt's review against another edition

4.25
informative tense medium-paced