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Active Citizens Book Group Reads How Democracies Die

Join us to discuss current affairs in the US and around the world. Future topics will include the environment, racism, economic and gender inequality, and workers' rights. This group meets monthly on the last Sunday of the month, at 4 p.m.
 
May 27, 4:00pm - How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky
 
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.
Event date: 
Sunday, May 27, 2018 - 4:00pm
Event address: 
Odyssey Bookshop
9 College Street
South Hadley, MA 01075
How Democracies Die By Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9781524762933
Availability: Not in Stock - Hard to Find
Published: Crown - January 16th, 2018