THE PEOPLE VS DEMOCRACY

The world is in turmoil. From India to Turkey and from Poland to the United States, authoritarian populists have seized power. As a result, Yascha Mounk shows, democracy itself may now be at risk.Two core components of liberal democracy?individual rights and the p opular will?are increasingly at war with each other. As the role of money in politics soared and important issues were taken out of public contestation, a system of rights without democracy took hold. Populists who rail against this say they want to return power to the peop...[Read more]