LG推薦的書：少數人的暴政：為什麽美國民主達到了崩潰點 Tyranny of the Minority: Why America
衷心推薦：
Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point, by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
2024年是美國總統大選之年，也是美國民主實驗麵臨失敗的關鍵一年。無論您屬於進步派、保守派，還是無黨派，隻要您關心美國民主體製，希望看到其存續和不斷完善，並且尚未讀過此書，都強烈推薦您盡快讀（或聽）至少一遍！倘若您已經讀過，而且對政治感到厭倦，為了重新燃起您的政治激情，請您盡快再讀（或聽）至少一遍！以下是從亞馬遜抄來的書評。
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the authors of How Democracies Die
“[Levitsky and Ziblatt] write with terrifying clarity about how the forces of the right have co-opted the enshrined rules to exert their tyranny.”—The Washington Post
ONE OF THE CALIFORNIA REVIEW OF BOOKS’ TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • A NEWSWEEK BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
America is undergoing a massive experiment: It is moving, in fits and starts, toward a multiracial democracy, something few societies have ever done. But the prospect of change has sparked an authoritarian backlash that threatens the very foundations of our political system. Why is democracy under assault here, and not in other wealthy, diversifying nations? And what can we do to save it?
With the clarity and brilliance that made their first book, How Democracies Die, a global bestseller, Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt offer a coherent framework for understanding these volatile times. They draw on a wealth of examples—from 1930s France to present-day Thailand—to explain why and how political parties turn against democracy. They then show how our Constitution makes us uniquely vulnerable to attacks from within: It is a pernicious enabler of minority rule, allowing partisan minorities to consistently thwart and even rule over popular majorities. Most modern democracies—from Germany and Sweden to Argentina and New Zealand—have eliminated outdated institutions like elite upper chambers, indirect elections, and lifetime tenure for judges. The United States lags dangerously behind.
In this revelatory book, Levitsky and Ziblatt issue an urgent call to reform our politics. It’s a daunting task, but we have remade our country before—most notably, after the Civil War and during the Progressive Era. And now we are at a crossroads: America will either become a multiracial democracy or cease to be a democracy at all.
Lepore, author of These Truths
“To their credit, they offer no easy solutions, but Levitsky and Ziblatt challenge us to use our voices and our votes to push back against these inherently antidemocratic features of our endangered republic.”—Laurence H. Tribe, University Professor of Constitutional Law Emeritus, Harvard
“This eye-opening study, filled with analysis of analogous historical moments from around the world, is an essential primer in the struggle for democracy this century.”—Rep. Jamie Raskin, author of Unthinkable
About the Author
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt are professors of government at Harvard University and the authors of the New York Times bestseller How Democracies Die, which won the Goldsmith Book Prize, was shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize, and was named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post, Time, and Foreign Affairs.
衷心推薦（穀歌翻譯）
《少數派的暴政：為什麽美國民主達到了崩潰點》作者：史蒂文·萊維茨基和丹尼爾·齊布拉特
2024年是美國總統大選之年，也是美國民主實驗麵臨失敗的關鍵一年。無論您屬於進步派、保守派，還是無黨派，隻要您關心美國民主體製，希望看到其不斷延續和不斷完善，並且尚未讀過此書，都強烈推薦您至少再讀一遍（或聽）！如果您已經讀過，而且對政治恐慌，為了重新燃起您的政治熱情，請您至少再讀（或聽）重複！以下是來自亞馬遜抄來的書評。
描述
《紐約時報》暢銷書 • 《民主如何消亡》作者呼籲在為時已晚之前改革我們過時的政治製度
“[列維茨基和齊布拉特]極其清晰地描述了右翼勢力如何利用明文規定來實施他們的暴政。”——《華盛頓郵報》
加州年度十佳圖書評論之一 • 新聞周刊年度最佳圖書
美國正在經曆一場大規模的實驗：它正在斷斷續續地走向多種族民主，這是很少有社會做過的事情。但變革的前景引發了威權主義的強烈抵製，威脅到我們政治製度的根基。為什麽民主在這裏受到攻擊，而在其他富裕、多元化的國家卻沒有？我們能做些什麽來拯救它？
哈佛大學教授史蒂文·萊維茨基（Steven Levitsky）和丹尼爾·齊布拉特（Daniel Ziblatt）憑借他們的第一本書《民主如何消亡》的清晰和才華，為理解這些動蕩的時代提供了一個連貫的框架。他們利用大量例子——從 20 世紀 30 年代的法國到當今的泰國——來解釋政黨為何以及如何反對民主。然後，他們展示了我們的憲法如何使我們特別容易受到來自內部的攻擊：它是少數派統治的有害推動者，允許黨派少數派持續阻撓甚至統治民眾多數派。大多數現代民主國家——從德國、瑞典到阿根廷和新西蘭——都取消了過時的製度，如精英上議院、間接選舉和法官終身製。美國嚴重落後。
在這本具有啟發性的書中，萊維茨基和齊布拉特發出了改革我們政治的緊急呼籲。這是一項艱巨的任務，但我們以前曾經重塑過我們的國家——尤其是在內戰之後和進步時代。現在我們正處於十字路口：美國要麽成為一個多種族民主國家，要麽根本不再是一個民主國家。
萊波雷，《這些真理》的作者
“值得稱讚的是，他們沒有提供簡單的解決方案，但萊維茨基和齊布拉特挑戰我們利用我們的聲音和選票來反擊我們瀕臨危險的共和國的這些固有的反民主特征。”——勞倫斯·H·特裏布，大學憲法學榮譽教授, 哈佛
“這項令人大開眼界的研究充滿了對世界各地類似曆史時刻的分析，是本世紀民主鬥爭的重要入門讀物。”——眾議員。傑米·拉斯金，《不可思議》的作者
關於作者
史蒂文·萊維茨基（Steven Levitsky）和丹尼爾·齊布拉特（Daniel Ziblatt）是哈佛大學政府學教授，《紐約時報》暢銷書《民主如何消亡》的作者，該書榮獲金史密斯圖書獎，入圍萊昂內爾·蓋爾伯獎，並被評為美國最佳圖書之一年由《華盛頓郵報》、《時代》雜誌和《外交事務》雜誌報道。
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