The People vs. Democracy : : Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It / / Yascha Mounk.
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 popular will—are increasingly at war...
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