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Barcode30053003293886
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call No321.9 APPL
Title Twilight of democracy : the seductive lure of authoritarianism / Anne Applebaum.
Author Applebaum, Anne, 1964- author.
CollectionAdult 300-399
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 Paris-Bourbon30053003293886321.9 APPL7/23/2020 Available

Catalog Details

Personal Name Applebaum, Anne, 1964- author.
Title Statement Twilight of democracy : the seductive lure of authoritarianism / Anne Applebaum.
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Doubleday, [2020]
Physical Description 206 pages ; 20 cm
Content Type text txt rdacontent
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-206).
Formatted Contents Note New Year's Eve -- How demagogues win -- The future of nostalgia -- Cascades of falsehood -- Prairie fire -- The unending of history.
Summary, Etc. "A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist explains, with electrifying clarity, why some of her contemporaries have abandoned liberal democratic ideals in favor of strongman cults, nationalist movements, or one-party states. Across the world today, from the U.S. to Europe and beyond, liberal democracy is under siege while different forms of authoritarianism are on the rise. In Twilight of Democracy, prize-winning historian Anne Applebaum argues that we should not be surprised by this change: There is an inherent appeal to political systems with radically simple beliefs, especially when they benefit the loyal to the exclusion of everyone else. People are not just ideological, she contends in this captivating extended essay; they are also practical, pragmatic, opportunist. The authoritarian and nationalist parties that have arisen within modern democracies offer new paths to wealth or power for their adherents. Describing politicians, journalists, intellectuals, and others who have abandoned democratic ideals in the UK, U.S., Spain, Poland, and Hungary, Applebaum reveals the patterns that link the new advocates of illiberalism and charts how they use conspiracy theory, political polarization, social media, and nostalgia to change their societies"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term World politics 21st century.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Democracy.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Authoritarianism.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Nationalist parties.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term One-party systems.

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