https://library.icmglt.org/files/original/7ba1bd1d34d0e642bbbe6f466fd61c85.jpg 9af2f88e88f68fb3b79acc9dda2d525e Electronic Resource View Source <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/title/1150853644">https://search.worldcat.org/title/1150853644</a> Document Type Book Author(s) Anne Applebaum Publisher Doubleday Publication Date 2020 ISBN 9780385545808 Language English Access Restricted Access Abstract "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" Cataloger Kristen Walker Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism Subject The topic of the resource Political science Authoritarianism Democracy