How Democracies Die
Is democracy in a global crisis? Why do people from the Americas to Asia support autocratic leaders? Is there a trade-off between rights and popular will? In this course we will discuss these questions and explore how and why democracies die. We will study and compare global trends as well as individual cases to unpack the economic, social, and political sources of democratic decline. Our sources will include global democracy and freedom indices, cross-country surveys, Y. Mounk’s The People vs Democracy, S. Levitsky and D. Zibblatt’s How Democracies Die, and a selection of recently published articles on the topic. 3 hrs. sem.