Book review: S. Levitsky & D. Ziblatt,How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future;D. Acemoglu & J.A. Robinson,Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power,Prosperity and Poverty and D. Roy Chowdhury & J. Keane,To Kill a Democracy: India’s Passage to Despotism

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S. Levitsky & D. Ziblatt, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future. New York: Penguin Random House UK, 2018, £ 9.99.

D. Acemoglu & J.A. Robinson, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty. London: Crown, 2013 (South Asian Edition), ₹699.

D. Roy Chowdhury & J. Keane, To Kill a Democracy: India’s Passage to Despotism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, £20.00; $25.95.