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How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.15 — 34,472 ratings — published 2018
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.29 — 116,641 ratings — published 2017
Democracy in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.06 — 27,497 ratings — published 1835
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.89 — 18,345 ratings — published 2020
Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior)
by (shelved 31 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,167 ratings — published 2016
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.41 — 14,980 ratings — published 2023
Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.38 — 4,286 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 4.05 — 1,666 ratings — published 2018
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.09 — 272,235 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 — 2,263 ratings — published 2007
Against Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.67 — 1,315 ratings — published 2016
Autocracy, Inc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.16 — 19,190 ratings — published 2024
On Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,182 ratings — published 1998
Why We're Polarized (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.21 — 20,508 ratings — published 2020
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.29 — 15,630 ratings — published 1951
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.08 — 66,247 ratings — published 2012
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,995 ratings — published 1942
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 — 5,099 ratings — published 2017
Democracy and Education (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,193 ratings — published 1916
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,521 ratings — published 2003
How Democracy Ends (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,485 ratings — published 2018
Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,004 ratings — published 2006
The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.61 — 551 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 — 3,365 ratings — published 2018
Democracy and Its Critics (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.85 — 320 ratings — published 1989
From Dictatorship to Democracy (online)
by (shelved 14 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,172 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 — 1,116 ratings — published 1966
Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.86 — 877 ratings — published 1992
Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.07 — 111 ratings — published
Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.27 — 5,662 ratings — published 2020
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.37 — 11,219 ratings — published 2018
The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,828 ratings — published 2013
The Federalist Papers (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.10 — 42,583 ratings — published 1788
On Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.27 — 5,414 ratings — published 2025
How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.24 — 6,257 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 — 225 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 — 749 ratings — published 2019
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 12 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.25 — 21,723 ratings — published 2018
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.34 — 5,009 ratings — published 2014
Tegen verkiezingen (ebook)
by (shelved 12 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,910 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 — 218 ratings — published 2008
Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.89 — 460 ratings — published 2008
Surviving Autocracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,765 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 — 30,820 ratings — published 2016
Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers
by (shelved 11 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,998 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 — 409 ratings — published 2009
Democracy: The God That Failed (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as democracy)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,589 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 — 5,860 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 — 708 ratings — published 1999
A Preface to Democratic Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as democracy)
avg rating 3.69 — 199 ratings — published 1956
“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.”
― New Hopes for a Changing World
― New Hopes for a Changing World
“Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.”
― Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
― Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
