Steven Levitsky
Born
in Ithaca, New York, The United States
January 17, 1968
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How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
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62 editions
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2018
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Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
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12 editions
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2023
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Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War
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14 editions
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2010
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¿Por qué no hay partidos políticos en Perú?
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Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism
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The Resurgence of the Latin American Left
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2011
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Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective
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2003
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Como salvar a democracia
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2023
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Argentine Democracy: The Politics of Institutional Weakness
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2006
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Challenges of Party-Building in Latin America
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“Democracies may die at the hands not of generals but of elected leaders—presidents or prime ministers who subvert the very process that brought them to power. Some of these leaders dismantle democracy quickly, as Hitler did in the wake of the 1933 Reichstag fire in Germany. More often, though, democracies erode slowly, in barely visible steps.”
― How Democracies Die
― How Democracies Die
“To save our democracy, Americans need to restore the basic norms that once protected it. But we must do more than that. We must extend those norms through the whole of a diverse society. We must make them truly inclusive. America's democratic norms, at their core, have always been sound. But for much of our history, they were accompanied - indeed, sustained - by racial exclusion. Now those norms must be made to work in an age of racial equality and unprecedented ethnic diversity. Few societies in history have managed to be both multiracial and genuinely democratic. That is our challenge. It is also our opportunity. If we meet it, America will truly be exceptional.”
― How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
― How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
“One of the great ironies of how democracies die is that the very defense of democracy is often used as a pretext for its subversion. Would-be autocrats often use economic crises, natural disasters, and especially security threats—wars, armed insurgencies, or terrorist attacks—to justify antidemocratic measures.”
― How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
― How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
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