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How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.15 — 35,283 ratings — published 2018
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.28 — 114,418 ratings — published 2017
Democracy in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.06 — 27,725 ratings — published 1835
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.89 — 18,619 ratings — published 2020
Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior)
by (shelved 32 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,182 ratings — published 2016
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.41 — 15,432 ratings — published 2023
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.21 — 45,026 ratings — published 2014
Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,415 ratings — published 2023
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.09 — 275,499 ratings — published 1980
Autocracy, Inc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.15 — 20,105 ratings — published 2024
The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,678 ratings — published 2018
The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,285 ratings — published 2007
Against Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,341 ratings — published 2016
On Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,210 ratings — published 1998
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,018 ratings — published 1942
Why We're Polarized (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.20 — 20,816 ratings — published 2020
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.29 — 15,999 ratings — published 1951
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.08 — 67,833 ratings — published 2012
The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,924 ratings — published 2026
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.87 — 57,261 ratings — published 2025
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 — 5,141 ratings — published 2017
Democracy and Education (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,201 ratings — published 1916
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,534 ratings — published 2003
How Democracy Ends (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,497 ratings — published 2018
Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,007 ratings — published 2006
The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.61 — 552 ratings — published 1991
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.38 — 3,383 ratings — published 2018
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.15 — 28,395 ratings — published 2014
Democracy and Its Critics (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.85 — 323 ratings — published 1989
The Federalist Papers (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.10 — 42,755 ratings — published 1788
From Dictatorship to Democracy (online)
by (shelved 14 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,190 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 — 1,128 ratings — published 1966
Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.86 — 885 ratings — published 1992
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.49 — 36,610 ratings — published 2020
On Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.27 — 5,735 ratings — published 2003
Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.04 — 119 ratings — published
Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.27 — 5,792 ratings — published 2020
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.37 — 11,381 ratings — published 2018
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.35 — 207,780 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 — 5,053 ratings — published 2014
The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,850 ratings — published 2013
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.50 — 192,265 ratings — published 2013
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.15 — 56,314 ratings — published 2024
How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.24 — 6,318 ratings — published 2022
Surviving Autocracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,827 ratings — published 2020
The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.89 — 228 ratings — published
Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.21 — 755 ratings — published 2019
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 12 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.25 — 21,891 ratings — published 2018
Tegen verkiezingen (ebook)
by (shelved 12 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,948 ratings — published 2013
Democracy: The God That Failed (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,634 ratings — published 2001
“The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
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“But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.”
― Mockingjay
― Mockingjay
