Tyranny of the Minority

Concise, readable, and convincing

Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Democracy

Old democracies tend to last, and so do rich democracies, Levitsky and Ziblatt point out in this searing, unsettling, and essential new book, but American democracy, which is both old and rich, is dying. In Tyranny of the Minority, they explain why, and they explain, too, how to save it

Jill Lepore, author of These Truths

Provocative and readable

David Runciman on How Democracies Die

Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt are two of the most respected scholars in the field of democracy studies

The Washington Post

Ziblatt and Levitsky are two of America’s very best comparative political scientists, with expertise that makes them uniquely well-equipped for the subject they’re examining . . . Tyranny of the Minority is an exceptional book, one of the best guides out there to the crisis of American democracy

Zack Beauchamp, Vox

An exceptionally perceptive and wide-ranging book . . . [that lays] out an ambitious fifteen-plank project of democratic renewal

Lawrence Douglas, TLS