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How Democracies Die: The International Bestseller: What History Reveals About Our Future
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Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy
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it’s that extreme polarization can kill democracies.
Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt • How Democracies Die
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith
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Populism offers strongmen an ideological basis for making themselves dictators while pretending to be democrats. It is particularly useful when strongmen seek to neutralize or appropriate the self-correcting mechanisms of democracy. Since judges, journalists, and professors allegedly pursue political interests rather than truth, the people’s champi
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Tocqueville souligne que l’atomisation sociale est le terreau du despotisme. De la multitude disparate émerge l’appel au tyran. Dans l’éparpillement germe le désir de fusion et de soumission. Nous en sommes là, partout en Occident : nos sociétés de solitude suscitent un tel sentiment d’insécurité que les institutions et les principes de la démocrat
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