Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Gustavo Tarre Briceño: Venezuela’s May 20 Elections and the Death of Democracy

A recent flood of books and political authors have warned about the risk democratic systems run as a result of booming populism. The overwhelming conclusion seems to be that, though we are seeing an increase in authoritarian governments that put an end to the rule of law and the separation of powers, they came to power as a result of free elections rather than as products of violence. To name just a few of these books: On Tyranny, by Timothy Snyder; How Democracies Die, by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblat; and The People vs. Democracy by Yascha Mounk.

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