Centripetal democracy is the idea that legitimate democratic institutions set in motion forms of citizen practice and representative behaviour that serve as pow

This book outlines the importance of political institutions in achieving good governance within a democratic polity.

Departing from the established literature connecting the political-institutional patterns of democracy with the quality of democracy, this book acknowledges tha

Democratic breakdown as a political and historic event can impact the fate of millions, if not hundreds of millions of people, by changing the political complex

How do democracies form and what makes them die? Daniel Ziblatt revisits this timely and classic question in a wide-ranging historical narrative that traces the