How Democracies Die

by Steven Levitsky

They may even be portrayed as efforts to improve democracy—making the judiciary more efficient, combating corruption, or cleaning up the

Two basic norms have preserved America’s checks and balances in ways we have come to take for granted: mutual toleration, or the understanding that competing parties accept one another as legitimate rivals, and forbearance, or the idea that politicians should exercise restraint in deploying their institutional prerogatives.

The weakening of our democratic norms is rooted in extreme partisan polarization—one that extends beyond policy differences into an existential conflict over race and culture.

Munich’s Beer Hall Putsch

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