{"id":7435,"date":"2018-01-11T10:46:52","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T18:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=7435"},"modified":"2018-01-11T10:47:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T18:47:37","slug":"book-democracies-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2018\/01\/11\/book-democracies-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Book:  &#8220;How Democracies Die&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"coverImage\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/35356384-how-democracies-die\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bookCover\" title=\"How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky\" src=\"https:\/\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1499167082m\/35356384.jpg\" alt=\"How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky\" width=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"description descriptionContainer\"><a class=\"bookTitle\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/35356384-how-democracies-die\">How Democracies Die<\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"by smallText\">by<\/span>\u00a0<a class=\"authorName\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/597491.Steven_Levitsky\">Steven Levitsky<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"authorName\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/1405020.Daniel_Ziblatt\">Daniel Ziblatt<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"greyText releaseDate\">Release date: Jan 19, 2018<\/div>\n<div class=\"greyText releaseDate\">\nA bracing, revelatory look at the demise of liberal democracies around the world\u2014and a road map for rescuing our ownDonald Trump\u2019s presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we\u2019d be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have spent more than twenty years studying the breakdown of democracies in Europe and Latin America, and they believe the answer is yes. Democracy no longer ends with a bang\u2014in a revolution or military coup\u2014but with a whimper: the slow, steady weakening of critical institutions, such as the judiciary and the press, and the gradual erosion of long-standing political norms. The good news is that there are several exit ramps on the road to authoritarianism. The bad news is that, by electing Trump, we have already passed the first one.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing on decades of research and a wide range of historical and global examples, from 1930s Europe to contemporary Hungary, Turkey, and Venezuela, to the American South during Jim Crow, Levitsky and Ziblatt show how democracies die\u2014and how ours can be saved<\/p>\n<p>(Goodreads.com)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Democracies Die by\u00a0Steven Levitsky,\u00a0Daniel Ziblatt Release date: Jan 19, 2018 A bracing, revelatory look at the demise of liberal democracies around the world\u2014and a road map for rescuing our ownDonald Trump\u2019s presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we\u2019d be asking: Is our democracy in&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2018\/01\/11\/book-democracies-die\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7435"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7437,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7435\/revisions\/7437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}