How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future 9781524762933, 9781524762940, 9781524762957, 9780525574538, 1476370249, 1524762938

Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is our democracy

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English Pages 320 Year 2018

Table of contents :
Fateful alliances --
Gatekeeping in America --
The great Republican abdication --
Subverting democracy --
The guardrails of democracy --
The unwritten rules of American politics --
The unraveling --
Trump against the guardrails --
Saving democracy.

How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
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