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When Conservatives endanger democracy The fate of centre-right Conservative parties have largely determined whether democracy thrived, as in Britain, or died, as in Weimar Germany (Photo: Helena Malikova) Political scientist Daniel Ziblatt is best known for co-authoring the 2018 bestseller How Democracies Die. The book is an indictment of US Republicans and their failure to resist Donald Trump. Ziblatt's work also examines how conservative parties have largely determined whether democracy thrived, as in Britain, or died, as in Weimar Germany. Read and decide Get instant access to all articl...

Capitol Hill riots: Are Western democracies under attack? The images of Trump supporters storming Capitol Hill in Washington looked eerily familiar to many Germans. Now there is a heated debate about whether democracies are in danger on this side of the Atlantic, too. The events in the US have Europeans worried about the state of Western democracies The scenes that unfolded on Capitol Hill on Wednesday reminded many Europeans of events in their own countries.  In 2006, a far-right mob stormed the Hungarian parliament, for example, engaging in street battles with police that lasted for ...

Fear or Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury or any of the other bestselling exposes of the White House circus. Arguably it was a wonkish tome by two Harvard political scientists, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, published a year into Donald Trump’s presidency and entitled How Democracies Die. After many years researching democratic slippage in Eastern Europe and Latin America, the duo admitted to experiencing double-take as they turned to their own country: “We feel dread…even as we try to reassure ourselves that things can’t really be that bad here.” An invasion of the Capitol Bu...