The People vs. Democracy

Liberalism and democracy, long assumed to be partners, coming apart, and what might hold them together. Mounk distinguishes rights without democracy from democracy without rights and shows both pulling free of their old union in the present moment. The book is a clear map of a confusing crisis: how a system can stay formally democratic while losing its liberal protections, or keep its rights while losing the people's faith. Useful for naming exactly what is breaking.

A political scientist who studies the strains on liberal democracy and the project of building diverse societies that hold together. The People vs. Democracy examines how liberalism and democracy, long assumed to be partners, have begun to pull apart. The Great Experiment asks how multiethnic democracies can succeed. He writes about the conditions under which self-government survives its own internal tensions.