Anne Applebaum: Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism.
Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present.
William J. Dobson: Defending Democracy in an Age of Sharp Power.
Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt:
Jan-Werner Müller: Democracy Rules.
Timothy Snyder: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.
Astra Taylor: Democracy May Not Exist, but We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone.