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# The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It Hardcover – Illustrated, March 5, 2018

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## Customer Reviews

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    Ok. I've read a lot of things about populism ...
  

*by S***S on Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2018*

Ok. I've read a lot of things about populism, tribalism, current authoritarian trends and so forth. What I've been looking for is a synthesis that successfully pulls together all those threads and assembles a coherent analysis of the threats we face.I've found a synthesis of extraordinary worth. It is this book.

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    Populism and autocracy: If you read only one book on the subject, this should be the one.
  

*by P***D on Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2018*

This is an excellent book, well-written, thorough, and insightful. I got it as part of my research on populism, for a lecture that I'll be giving, and I find that I won't need any other sources - I could lift my entire lecture just from this book. Of course I won't, but the book is wonderful! It is well-organized, clear, and lucid, with chapters well-paced, showing how American populism has evolved, and its connection to autocratic government. I find no weaknesses in it, and recommend it enthusiastically.

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    The Young Won’t Save Us
  

*by W***R on Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2018*

An academic piece: Yascha Mounk is a Lecturer at Harvard and this work follows an academic technique of establishing a diagnostic framework and ordering the presentation about it.“A quarter century ago, most citizens of liberal democracies were very satisfied with their governments and gave high approval ratings to their institutions; now, they are more disillusioned than they have ever been.” Liberal democracy in demise.“…a liberal is somebody who is committed to basic values like freedom of speech, the separation of powers, or the protection of individual rights.“A democracy is a set of binding electoral institutions that effectively translates popular views into public policy.“A liberal democracy is simply a political system that is both liberal and democratic—one that both protects individual rights and translates popular views into public policy.”He realizes “liberal regimes can be undemocratic despite having regular, competitive elections. This is especially likely to happen where the political system is so skewed in favor of the elite that elections rarely serve to translate popular views into public policy.”His basic argument is the liberal democratic institutions are under attack in the Western world and may be lost to threatening forms of populists occurring here and across the EU – what is becoming a common theme in many works.The high point of his work is his rich familiarity with the detailed struggles going on in a swath of countries, both in what has been happening and what could happen under the speeding demise of liberal and democratic forms, Hungary, Poland, Turkey and America being prime examples of countries where liberal democracy is being threatened.He allows America, pre-Trump, as undemocratic liberalism -- where the political system is so skewed in favor of the elite that elections rarely serve to translate popular views into public policy – but treats his election as a populist victory. France, Germany, Netherlands, and Great Britain are in processes of transition along with others where established political lines are falling away.“Unless the defenders of liberal democracy manage to stand up to the populists, illiberal democracy will always be in danger of descending into outright dictatorship.”No mention of globalization or Asia but attributes 80% of lost employment in USA to technology, the rest to trade.His solution to the ills of undemocratic liberalism ‘is to abolish tutelary institutions, to boot elites out of power, and to put the people back in charge.’But how to get from here to there? If those in power serving the elite are not replaced by leaders committed to liberal democracy, as defined, its opposite will rule and he has no theme for how that change will occur; the most embarrassing being a drift off into reinstalling ‘Civics’ in the class room.He notes that each new generation has less faith in democracy as they see it and less faith in prevailing political structures and cries: The Young Won’t Save Us.Here he may be wrong. The Millianians seeing where liberal democracy has vanished are pushing for new directions supporting more progressive or radical alternatives as opposed to Mounk’s basic theme of repairing what was virtuous.  “…they are much more likely to vote for antisystem parties in many countries around the world.”Seeing ‘the system’ as broken, why not?The work is informative in many aspects on what has happened but weak on why and its remedies.Here he could have referenced another political scientist Sheldon S. Wolin who warned of all this in Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Political Thought, especially his 2004 expanded edition with corporate control (“Democracy Incorporated”) incompatible with liberal democracy as the author defines it and all predating the rise of the populist revolt.Interesting but a little tedious and perhaps better without his family history.Read if not following events in other countries; here it is useful.

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