Democratic to Authoritarian Rule Teach-Out

Now that you've made it through the Teach-Out, we hope you'll consider this a bridge to further engagement. Listed below are a number of further readings based on the content in the Teach-Out. Please share your own reading suggestions on the ""Current Issues in Authoritarianism"" forum.

Curated Reading Lists

The following lists feature a combination of scholarly sources and articles from general publications.

• Tom Pepinsky (Department of Government, Cornell University): “Comparative Politics and the Trump Administration”
• Brendan Nyhan (Department of Government, Dartmouth College): “Understanding the authoritarian turn in US politics”
• University of Glasgow Reading Lists: “Bibliography for Authoritarianism”
• Andrew Kane (Huffington Post): “So You’re Living Under Authoritarian Rule: A Reading List”
• Questia: “Authoritarianism: Selected full-text books and articles”

Individual Articles

The following articles are drawn from widely accessible media outlets, all aimed at a general public.

• “Democracy Index 2017: Free speech under attack,” The Economist Intelligence Unit. January, 2018.
• ""This is how democracies die,"" The Guardian. January 21, 2018.
• “Autocracy: Rules for Survival,” New York Review of Books. November 12, 2016.
• “How to Build an Autocracy,” The Atlantic. March 2017.
• “Hungary and Poland Aren’t Democratic. They’re Authoritarian.” Foreign Policy. February 5, 2018.
• “As West Fears the Rise of Autocrats, Hungary Shows What’s Possible,” New York Times. February 10, 2018.
• “The Disturbing Rise of Monarchism in America,” National Review. July 13, 2017.
• “Despite the Hysteria, Trump Is Trending Less Authoritarian Than Obama,” National Review. February 23, 2017.
• “Is Democracy in Europe Doomed?,” New York Review of Books. October 16, 2017.
• “How democracies die, explained,” Vox. February 8, 2018.
• “Authoritarianism,” Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World. 2008.
• “The rise of American Authoritarianism,” Vox. March 1, 2016.
• “Kenya’s Dangerous Path Toward Authoritarianism,” The New Yorker. February 9, 2018.
• “Is there something wrong with Democracy?” New York Times, January 24, 2018. (Video)
• “How to Report Under Authoritarianism,” Time. November 17, 2016.

Books

• Porter, B. (2014). Poland in the modern world : beyond martyrdom. West Sussex, UK: Wiley Blackwell.
• Levitsky, S. & Ziblatt, D. (2018). How democracies die. New York: Crown.