Authoritarianism and democracy in America

About the event

In 2016, the presidential election of Donald Trump ignited a new wave of political polarization in the United State. With the pursuit for political hegemony and a growing aversion to bipartisan solutions, is democracy under threat in America?

Steven Levitsky is a professor of Government at Harvard University. He is the bestselling author of How Democracies Die, published in 2018, which examines the breakdown of democracy across the globe.

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