A review by sunshine915
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future by Daniel Ziblatt, Steven Levitsky

4.0

A really interesting look at how democracies collapse with particular focus on more modern examples of the collapse in Central and South America. There is a great discussion of factors that maintain the stability of democracies and characteristics of leaders that are likely to erode democracies. The book clearly illustrates that maintaining a democracy is a work in progress that involves active participation of the citizenry. This was a short, but well researched book written by respected academics.