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Bonus: Is America on the Path to Authoritarianism? A Conversation With Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way
A month into U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term in office, many are alarmed by what they see as emerging signs of democratic erosion. In a new essay, called “The Path to American Authoritarianism,” the scholars Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way make the case that such alarm is justified—that the administration’s early moves could herald an irreversible transformation of the U.S. political system, with major implications for global democracy.
Drawing from their research on democratic decline worldwide, Levitsky and Way argue that the United States faces a particular kind of risk that many…
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