The People vs.

Democracy
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NON-FICTION
World English Harvard University Press (Ed. John Kulka)
Dec 2017

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The People Versus Democracy offers a timely and persuasive diagnosis of what ails our German Droemer Verlag
current politics. Liberalism and democracy, historically twinned, are splitting apart at Italian Feltrinelli
the seams. In its place, two equally troubling patterns have emerged: “democracy Japanese Iwanami Shoten
without rights,” as in Orban’s Hungary and Modi’s India, where the people Korean Mirae N Co.,Ltd.
democratically elect demagogues who impinge on minority rights and “rights without Polish Kultura Liberalna
democracy,” as in the US, where the government preserves civil liberties and economic
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freedoms but individual votes have little effect on political outcomes. Letras
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Like Fareed Zakaria in The Future of Freedom and Thomas Piketty in Capital in the 21st
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Century , Mounk offers a new paradigm for making sense of our vexing political
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moment. Combining narrative reportage with compelling data from his own research,
The People Versus Democracy will give readers the tools to make sense of the political
present, and offer a way forward for the future of liberal democracy. Audio Rights
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