"A brilliant book" Welt am SonntagDemocracies die with a bang or a whimper. The bang, that is, the often violent end of a democracy through a coup, a war or a revolution, is more spectacular. But the demise of a democracy, the dying with a whimper, is more commonplace - and more dangerous, because citizens usually don't wake up until it's too late. In their award-winning bestseller, political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt show how we can tell that democratic institutions and processes are being eroded. And they tell us how we can stop this development. Because with targeted resistance, democracy can be saved - even from its deathbed.