Democratic breakdown no longer arrives with tanks in the streets or constitutions torn up overnight. In many countries, democratic institutions remain visible even as their ability to restrain power quietly erodes.The Slow Coup examines how modern regimes consolidate control without formally abandoning elections, courts, or democratic language. Drawing on comparative political analysis and real-world cases, the book shows how power is stabilized through ordinary go...

Democracy does not usually collapse. It erodes.In Managed Freedom: Warning Signs from Comparative Politics, political scientist Matt Nygren examines how democratic systems weaken without suspending elections, abolishing courts, or openly rejecting the rule of law. Drawing on comparative political research, the book traces how ordinary institutions—courts, parties, media, elections, and administrative agencies—can remain intact even as democratic restraint ...

Nuclear power is often presented as unavoidable. Too important to question. Too urgent to refuse.The Nuclear Illusion examines nuclear energy not as a technical solution, but as a system of governance. Across cost, safety, waste, security, and institutional design, it shows how nuclear power repeatedly requires permanent exceptions to ordinary democratic rules: capped liability, sustained subsidy, enduring surveillance, and obligations imposed far beyond political time hor...

USA Today BestsellerIf it’s not working change it . . . one backyard at a time.Visionary placemaker Steve Nygren chronicles the rise of Serenbe, a pioneering model in biophilic living outside Atlanta, and charts a path for others wishing to challenge the status quo, embrace optimism, and reinvent their communities—and themselves.For many Americans, life is no longer working. We are increasingly sick, stress...

Congo has a rich and diverse assortment of folk tales. A great variety of tales, legends, myths and fables have been passed on from generation to generation. In these tales the African storyteller describes human failings and virtues, religious representations and the surrounding nature to his listeners. To the storyteller, animals, or objects such as a piece of clay pot, become amusing and significant representations of human frailty and morality. Bertil Söderberg, Doctor of Philosophy, w...