On March 21st, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School hosted a discussion with Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, authors of How Democracies Die. HKS Academic Dean Archon Fung, Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government, moderated. Scott Mainwaring, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor for Brazil Studies, provided an introduction.

This conversation was a part of the Ash Center’s Democracy in Hard Places Initiative.