Contents
INTRODUCTION

States of Emergency
by Bruce Ackerman 

vii

The Dictator’s Handbook,
US Edition
by Eric A. Posner 

1

Constitutional Rot
by Jack M. Balkin 

19

Could Fascism Come to
America? by Tyler Cowen 

37

Lessons from the American
Founding
by Cass R. Sunstein 
57
Beyond Elections: Foreign
Interference with American
Democracy by Samantha
Power 
81
Paradoxes of the Deep
State by Jack Goldsmith 

105

How We Lost Constitutional
Democracy by Tom
Ginsburg and Aziz Huq 
135
On “It Can’t Happen
Here” by Noah Feldman 

157

Authoritarianism Is Not a
Momentary Madness, But
an Eternal Dynamic Within
Liberal Democracies
by Karen Stenner and
Jonathan Haidt 
175

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221

Another Road to Serfdom:
Cascading Intolerance
by Timur Kuran 
233
The Resistible Rise of
Louis Bonaparte
by Jon Elster 

277

Could Mass Detentions
Without Process Happen
Here? by Martha Minow 

313

The Commonsense
Presidency
by Duncan J. Watts 

329

Law and the Slow-­Motion
Emergency
by David A. Strauss 

365

How Democracies Perish
by Stephen Holmes 

387

“It Can’t Happen Here”:
The Lessons of History
by Geoffrey R. Stone 

429

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

449

CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHIES
INDEX

451

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