Come muoiono le democrazie

I have not read Fire and Fury and doubt that I will. It seems too much like gossip to me, and too similar to the truckload of OBAMA IS DESTROYING AMERICA books that occurred during the last administration. But I bought How Democracy Dies the first day it came out, and read it in an evening because i Leggi tutto

This book delivers autopsies of various democracies from 30,000 feet. Hitler, Hugo Chavez, Pinochet, Trump somehow all get blended into this survey. So the bulk of the book works as an introductory history course. That's fine, but the rise of Hitler, for example, is old information. What I am lookin Leggi tutto

Below is how the authors see the need for this book and its purpose: “This is how we tend to think of democracies dying: at the hands of men with guns. During the Cold War, coups d’état accounted for nearly three out of every four democratic breakdowns. Democracies in Argentina, Brazil, the Dominican Leggi tutto

I found this book fascinating. Ziblatt and Levitsky are respected scholars in the field of democracy studies. They teach at Harvard University. The book is well written and researched. It is written in an easy to read style that is easy for the lay person to follow. The first part of the book reviewe Leggi tutto

This book was quite disappointing. I was expecting a thorough analysis on how stable democracies turned into authoritarian regimes; in contrast, the book only does a quick overview of some modern dictatorships and then delves into the United States' democratic history. Finally, the book concludes wi Leggi tutto

-Al final se refiere más a una democracia en concreto, por más que se citen otras referencias, que a las democracias en general.- Género. Ensayo. Lo que nos cuenta. El libro Cómo mueren las democracias (publicación original: How Democracies Die, 2018) se centra, a pesar de lo que dice su título, en si Leggi tutto