About Yascha Mounk
German-American political scientist (b. 1982), professor at Johns Hopkins and founder of the journal Persuasion. A prominent writer on populism and the health of liberal democracy, Mounk has been one of the most widely read centrist voices warning about democratic backsliding, making this book a standard contemporary reference on the subject.
Books by Yascha Mounk
The Identity Trap
Mounk's wide-ranging account of how a new progressive orientation — what he calls the 'identity synthesis' — moved from the academy into mainstream institutions, and his liberal case against it. Sympathetic to the moral…
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The clearest recent diagnosis of what is going wrong with liberal democracy. Mounk argues that the two halves of the system — popular self-rule and the protection of individual rights — are coming apart, producing 'illi…
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