Yascha Mounk

The writer is a lecturer in political theory at Harvard, a fellow at New America, and the author of Stranger in my Own Country: A Jewish Family in Modern Germany.

Illiberal Democracy or Undemocratic Liberalism?

It is hardly surprising, then, that citizens on both sides of the Atlantic feel that they are no longer masters of their political fate. For all intents and purposes, they now live under a regime that is liberal, yet undemocratic: a system in which their rights are mostly respected but their political preferences are routinely ignored.

June 13, 2016
June 13, 2016

Illiberal Democracy or Undemocratic Liberalism?

It is hardly surprising, then, that citizens on both sides of the Atlantic feel that they are no longer masters of their political fate. For all intents and purposes, they now live under a regime that is liberal, yet undemocratic: a system in which their rights are mostly respected but their political preferences are routinely ignored.

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