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How Democracies Die

Dan Ziblatt and Steve Levitsky
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How Democracies Die by Dan Ziblatt and Steve Levitsky comes up on The Ezra Klein Show, with transcript quotes, timestamps, and episode context.

How Democracies Die by Dan Ziblatt and Steve Levitsky appears 1 time across 1 podcast episode on 1 show, with transcript quotes and timestamps.

So the short of it is that to have the sort of power sharing that I'm talking about does require the set of stable norms and guardrails, the kind of things that, you know, Dan Ziblatt and Steve Levitsky talk about.

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This Philosopher Wants Liberals to Take Political Power Seriously on The Ezra Klein Show
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The host references 'How Democracies Die' to emphasize the importance of stable norms and guardrails for sustaining democracy. They argue that without these structures, the political landscape becomes increasingly polarized and unsafe for citizens.

How Democracies Die by Dan Ziblatt and Steve Levitsky most often appears in conversations about norms and guardrails in democracy.

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The host references 'How Democracies Die' to emphasize the importance of stable norms and guardrails for sustaining democracy. They argue that without these structures, the political landscape becomes increasingly polarized and unsafe for citizens.

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Political scientists and engaged citizens interested in democratic theory
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Fastest path back to the source: the strongest indexed mention lands at 38:21 in the episode where we captured it.

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This Philosopher Wants Liberals to Take Political Power Seriously on The Ezra Klein Show is one of the clearest indexed episodes that mentioned How Democracies Die by Dan Ziblatt and Steve Levitsky. The first indexed transcript timestamp lands at 38:21.

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The host references 'How Democracies Die' to emphasize the importance of stable norms and guardrails for sustaining democracy. They argue that without these structures, the political landscape becomes increasingly polarized and unsafe for citizens. It most often appears in conversations about norms and guardrails in democracy.

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The speaker references the book to discuss the importance of stable norms and guardrails in a constitutional democracy.

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Key quote: So the short of it is that to have the sort of power sharing that I'm talking about does require the set of stable norms and guardrails, the kind of things that, you know, Dan Ziblatt and Steve Levitsky talk about.
The host references 'How Democracies Die' to emphasize the importance of stable norms and guardrails for sustaining democracy. They argue that without these structures, the political landscape becomes increasingly polarized and unsafe for citizens.