THE MUCH-ANTICIPATED FOLLOW-UP TO INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER HOW DEMOCRACIES DIE - essential
reading ahead of the 2024 US election ' Tyranny of the Minority is an exceptional book one
of the best guides out there to the crisis of American democracy' Zack Beauchamp Vox
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we do to save it? With the clarity and brilliance that made their first book How Democracies
Die a global bestseller leading Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt offer
a coherent new framework for understanding the dangerous times we live in. They draw on a
wealth of examples - from the Capitol riots to Edwardian Britain from 1930s France to
present-day Thailand - to explore right-wing efforts to undermine the very foundations of the
American political system and to explain why and how political parties turn against democracy.
With its attention on factors from election losses to demographic change and voting rights its
urgent call for a reform of our politics to balance the need for majority rule with the need
for minority protections and a citizens' movement to put enough pressure on lawmakers to act
before it's too late Tyranny of the Minority is a must-read for everyone keen to see more
vibrant democracy - and to understand where future threats may come from.
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readable and convincing' Anne Applebaum author of Twilight of Democracy 'An exceptionally
perceptive and wide-ranging book . . . [that lays] out an ambitious fifteen-plank project of
democratic renewal' Lawrence Douglas TLS
