Contributions by ‘Laurence Claus’

In Tyranny of the Minority, Levitsky and Ziblatt lower their sights from identifying general principles of democratic governance to prescribing particular big institutional changes to the American system of government. Those changes are needed, they argue, to ensure that American governments are formed by majority choice and can then actually govern. Their recommended reforms fall into three categories: protecting the right to vote, changing the ways the President, Congress and state legislatures are chosen to give citizens a more equal say in who will govern, and enabling elected governments to get more done.