Lawfare Archive: Democracy's Morticians: Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt on 'How Democracies Die'
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🗓️ 3 November 2024
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From May 1, 2018: Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, authors of the new book “How Democracies Die,” join Benjamin Wittes for a conversation about the conditions under which democracies survive and how American democracy can survive its experiment with populism.
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