The Authors of "How Democracies Die" on the New Democratic Minority
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from The New Yorker4 months ago
"It's not up to voters to defend a democracy," Levitsky says. "That's asking far, far too much of voters... It is up to élites and institutions to protect democracy-not voters."
The New Yorkerhttps://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/the-authors-of-how-democracies-die-on-the-new-democratic-minority
Levitsky and Ziblatt published 'How Democracies Die' during Trump's first Administration, but they argue that what's ailing our democracy runs much deeper and that it didn't start with Trump."
The New Yorkerhttps://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/the-authors-of-how-democracies-die-on-the-new-democratic-minority
"We're the only advanced, old, rich democracy that has faced the level of democratic backsliding that we've experienced... If we don't ask those kinds of hard questions, we're going to continue to be in this roiling crisis," Ziblatt says.
The New Yorkerhttps://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/the-authors-of-how-democracies-die-on-the-new-democratic-minority
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