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The Main Challenges to Democracy | Featuring Yascha Mounk

The Main Challenges to Democracy | Featuring Yascha Mounk

Released Friday, 16th August 2019
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The Main Challenges to Democracy | Featuring Yascha Mounk

The Main Challenges to Democracy | Featuring Yascha Mounk

The Main Challenges to Democracy | Featuring Yascha Mounk

The Main Challenges to Democracy | Featuring Yascha Mounk

Friday, 16th August 2019
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Yascha Mounk, associate professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS and expert on the rise of populism, describes three main challenges to democracy: the stagnation of living standards in developed democracies, cultural and demographic changes that are shifting the status quo, and the social media’s domination. These elements have combined to increase the supply of “noxious ideas” that have led to factions and division in the United States and other countries. One way to reverse this process, Mounk argues, is to resist divisive ideology in favor of what he calls “inclusive nationalism.”

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