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How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.15 — 34,933 ratings — published 2018
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.29 — 118,455 ratings — published 2017
Democracy in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.06 — 27,619 ratings — published 1835
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.89 — 18,511 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 — 1,175 ratings — published 2016
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.41 — 15,238 ratings — published 2023
Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,359 ratings — published 2023
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 — 1,673 ratings — published 2018
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.09 — 273,785 ratings — published 1980
The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,278 ratings — published 2007
Autocracy, Inc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.15 — 19,701 ratings — published 2024
Against Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.67 — 1,330 ratings — published 2016
On Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,190 ratings — published 1998
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,003 ratings — published 1942
Why We're Polarized (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.21 — 20,659 ratings — published 2020
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.29 — 15,803 ratings — published 1951
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.08 — 67,097 ratings — published 2012
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 — 5,120 ratings — published 2017
Democracy and Education (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,198 ratings — published 1916
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,527 ratings — published 2003
How Democracy Ends (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,490 ratings — published 2018
Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,003 ratings — published 2006
The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.61 — 550 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 — 3,373 ratings — published 2018
Democracy and Its Critics (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.85 — 321 ratings — published 1989
From Dictatorship to Democracy (online)
by (shelved 14 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,182 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 — 1,124 ratings — published 1966
Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.86 — 880 ratings — published 1992
On Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.27 — 5,598 ratings — published 2025
Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.05 — 114 ratings — published
Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.27 — 5,732 ratings — published 2020
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.37 — 11,301 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 — 5,032 ratings — published 2014
The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,837 ratings — published 2013
The Federalist Papers (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.10 — 42,688 ratings — published 1788
How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.24 — 6,282 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 3.88 — 226 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 — 753 ratings — published 2019
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 12 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.25 — 21,823 ratings — published 2018
Tegen verkiezingen (ebook)
by (shelved 12 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,923 ratings — published 2013
The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.83 — 220 ratings — published 2008
Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.89 — 461 ratings — published 2008
Surviving Autocracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,806 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 — 30,980 ratings — published 2016
Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers
by (shelved 11 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,095 ratings — published 2009
A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.80 — 413 ratings — published 2009
Democracy: The God That Failed (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,619 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 — 5,867 ratings — published 2006
Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.68 — 710 ratings — published 1999
A Preface to Democratic Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.69 — 200 ratings — published 1956
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“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
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“Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to know with which ear you'll listen.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
