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DESCRIPTION:Kim L. Scheppele from Princeton University uses examples from H
 ungary\, Turkey\, Venezuela\, Poland\, Russia\, India and elsewhere to expl
 ore the phenomenon of democratic decline.\n\n \n\nBuried within the general
  phenomenon of democratic decline is a set of cases in which charismatic ne
 w leaders are elected by democratic publics and then use their electoral ma
 ndates to dismantle by law the constitutional systems they inherited. These
  leaders aim to consolidate power and to remain in office indefinitely\, ev
 entually eliminating the ability of democratic publics to exercise their ba
 sic democratic rights\, to hold leaders accountable\, and to change their l
 eaders peacefully. Because these “legalistic autocrats” deploy the law to a
 chieve their aims\, impending autocracy may not be evident at the start. Bu
 t we can learn to spot the legalistic autocrats before autocratic constitut
 ionalism becomes fatal because they are often following a script using tact
 ics that they borrow from each other.\n\n \n\nKim Lane Scheppele is the Lau
 rance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Pr
 inceton University. She is the winner of numerous awards and distinctions\,
  and she is one of the foremost experts on how legal and constitutional ins
 truments can be used to destroy democracy.
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SUMMARY:How to Lose a Democracy: What America Can Learn from the Rest of th
 e World
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 learn-from-the-rest-of-the-world
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