The Main Challenges to Democracy | Featuring Yascha Mounk

16/08/2019 21 min Temporada 1 Episodio 21
The Main Challenges to Democracy | Featuring Yascha Mounk

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Episode Synopsis

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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