Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point - Hardcover

by Steven Levitsky (Author), Daniel Ziblatt (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF THE CALIFORNIA REVIEW OF BOOKS' 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A NEWSWEEK BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it's too late - from the authors of How Democracies Die “A minority of voters can now inflict a legislative wallop of racism, sexism, nativism, homophobia, transphobia, and economic misery on the rest of us—and never have to pay for it at the polls. This is the ‘tyranny of the minority’ that Levitsky and Ziblatt rightly fear. No lawless strongman or populist autocracy, it’s a product of the very Constitution that we have been taught to admire.” - The New Yorker “Why has American democracy come so close to a breaking point while other Western democracies appear more stable? In this sobering study, Levitsky and Ziblatt blame the United States’ 18th-century constitutional order for its modern democratic woes.” - Foreign Affairs “In their mus