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How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.16 — 31,600 ratings — published 2018
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.28 — 96,801 ratings — published 2017
Democracy in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.05 — 26,852 ratings — published 1835
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.90 — 17,347 ratings — published 2020
Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior)
by (shelved 27 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,113 ratings — published 2016
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.41 — 13,270 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 — 1,623 ratings — published 2018
Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.39 — 3,768 ratings — published 2023
Against Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.67 — 1,239 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 — 2,183 ratings — published 2007
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.09 — 263,188 ratings — published 1980
On Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,139 ratings — published 1998
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,953 ratings — published 2017
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,920 ratings — published 1942
Autocracy, Inc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.19 — 14,664 ratings — published 2024
Why We're Polarized (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.21 — 19,233 ratings — published 2020
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.30 — 14,426 ratings — published 1951
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.09 — 61,275 ratings — published 2012
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,483 ratings — published 2003
The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.62 — 545 ratings — published 1991
How Democracy Ends (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,437 ratings — published 2018
Democracy and Its Critics (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.85 — 314 ratings — published 1989
The Federalist Papers (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.10 — 41,851 ratings — published 1788
Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.87 — 857 ratings — published 1992
Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.27 — 5,088 ratings — published 2020
Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.20 — 715 ratings — published 2019
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.39 — 3,323 ratings — published 2018
Tegen verkiezingen (ebook)
by (shelved 14 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,783 ratings — published 2013
Democracy and Education (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,149 ratings — published 1916
Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.18 — 973 ratings — published 2006
From Dictatorship to Democracy (online)
by (shelved 14 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,074 ratings — published 1993
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.37 — 10,585 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 — 4,874 ratings — published 2014
The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,748 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 3.80 — 213 ratings — published 2008
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,084 ratings — published 1966
How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.24 — 5,905 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 — 211 ratings — published
Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers
by (shelved 12 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,957 ratings — published 2009
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 11 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.25 — 20,944 ratings — published 2018
The Democratic Paradox (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.89 — 482 ratings — published 2000
Democracy: The God That Failed (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,457 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 — 5,808 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 — 688 ratings — published 1999
A Preface to Democratic Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.70 — 197 ratings — published 1956
Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.15 — 102 ratings — published
Surviving Autocracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,508 ratings — published 2020
The Light that Failed: A Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,468 ratings — published 2019
How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,200 ratings — published 2019
Democracy When the People Are Thinking: Revitalizing Our Politics Through Public Deliberation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.81 — 27 ratings — published
“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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