Show Notes
The hallmarks of liberal democracy are in decline as autocrats gain popularity and power. How did this happen – and what can we do about it? We sit down with Gerald Butts and Prof. Dietlind Stolle to talk about the biggest threats to democracy today and how we can defend against them. Featuring: Gerald Butts, BA’93, MA’96, Chairman, Eurasia Group Dietlind Stolle , James McGill Professor of Political Science at McGill University
Recommendations: Want to dig deeper? We asked our guests to recommend some of their favourite resources on this topic.
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt The Lives of Others dir. by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know by Erica Chenoweth
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