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How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.16 — 33,502 ratings — published 2018
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.29 — 112,479 ratings — published 2017
Democracy in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.05 — 27,234 ratings — published 1835
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.89 — 18,043 ratings — published 2020
Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior)
by (shelved 29 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,144 ratings — published 2016
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.41 — 14,316 ratings — published 2023
The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,654 ratings — published 2018
Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.38 — 4,077 ratings — published 2023
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.09 — 268,905 ratings — published 1980
Against Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.67 — 1,289 ratings — published 2016
The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,233 ratings — published 2007
Autocracy, Inc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.17 — 17,958 ratings — published 2024
On Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,171 ratings — published 1998
Why We're Polarized (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.21 — 20,112 ratings — published 2020
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.29 — 15,170 ratings — published 1951
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.09 — 64,558 ratings — published 2012
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,967 ratings — published 1942
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.29 — 5,046 ratings — published 2017
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,512 ratings — published 2003
The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.61 — 548 ratings — published 1991
How Democracy Ends (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,468 ratings — published 2018
Democracy and Education (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,178 ratings — published 1916
Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.18 — 993 ratings — published 2006
Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.86 — 871 ratings — published 1992
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.38 — 3,346 ratings — published 2018
Democracy and Its Critics (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.84 — 318 ratings — published 1989
The Federalist Papers (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.10 — 42,295 ratings — published 1788
From Dictatorship to Democracy (online)
by (shelved 14 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,138 ratings — published 1993
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,100 ratings — published 1966
Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.27 — 5,486 ratings — published 2020
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.37 — 11,019 ratings — published 2018
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.34 — 4,972 ratings — published 2014
Tegen verkiezingen (ebook)
by (shelved 13 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,859 ratings — published 2013
The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,797 ratings — published 2013
The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.82 — 216 ratings — published 2008
How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.24 — 6,167 ratings — published 2022
The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.86 — 223 ratings — published
Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.20 — 733 ratings — published 2019
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 12 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.25 — 21,476 ratings — published 2018
Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers
by (shelved 12 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,981 ratings — published 2009
Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.89 — 457 ratings — published 2008
Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.68 — 703 ratings — published 1999
Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.09 — 109 ratings — published
Surviving Autocracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,699 ratings — published 2020
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.87 — 30,432 ratings — published 2016
Democracy: The God That Failed (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,531 ratings — published 2001
Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,844 ratings — published 2006
A Preface to Democratic Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.69 — 198 ratings — published 1956
On Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,962 ratings — published 2025
The Light that Failed: A Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,528 ratings — published 2019
“Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.”
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“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”
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