WCED Panel. How Democracies Live and Die

Steven Levitsky, professor of government, Harvard University
Thomas Carothers, senior vice president for studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Didi Kuo, research scholar, Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, Stanford University

In their new book How Democracies Die, Harvard University professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt address what may be the defining political question of our time. In this capstone event to WCED’s “Democracies Emerging and Submerging” conference, Professor Levitsky discusses how democracies both live and die with Thomas Carothers from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Didi Kuo from Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law.

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