Yascha Mounk: 5 books

Book cover of Der Zerfall der Demokratie

Der Zerfall der Demokratie

Wie der Populismus den Rechtsstaat bedroht

by Yascha Mounk
Language: German
Release Date: January 29, 2018

Die Demokratie droht zu scheitern. Politikverweigerung und rechtspopulistische Parteien wie AfD, FPÖ und Front National untergraben stabile Regierungen. Der Havard-Politologe Yascha Mounk legt Gründe und Mechanismen offen, die westliche liberale Rechtsstaaten – so auch die USA unter Donald Trump...
Book cover of The People vs. Democracy

The People vs. Democracy

Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It

by Yascha Mounk
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018

The world is in turmoil. From India to Turkey and from Poland to the United States, authoritarian populists have seized power. As a result, Yascha Mounk shows, democracy itself may now be at risk. Two core components of liberal democracy—individual rights and the popular will—are increasingly...
Book cover of Echt, du bist Jude?

Echt, du bist Jude?

Fremd im eigenen Land

by Yascha Mounk
Language: German
Release Date: September 22, 2015

»Hör auf zu lügen! Jeder weiß, dass es keine Juden mehr gibt.« Mit diesem Kommentar seines Klassenkameraden beginnt für Yascha Mounk die Auseinandersetzung mit seinem Jüdischsein. Er, der als einer von zwei Juden (er und seine Mutter) in dem schwäbischen Nest Laupheim aufgewachsen ist, erlebte...
Book cover of Stranger in My Own Country

Stranger in My Own Country

A Jewish Family in Modern Germany

by Yascha Mounk
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014

A moving and unsettling exploration of a young man's formative years in a country still struggling with its past As a Jew in postwar Germany, Yascha Mounk felt like a foreigner in his own country. When he mentioned that he is Jewish, some made anti-Semitic jokes or talked about the superiority...
Book cover of The Age of Responsibility
by Yascha Mounk
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017

Yascha Mounk shows why a focus on personal responsibility is wrong and counterproductive: it distracts us from the larger economic forces determining aggregate outcomes, ignores what we owe fellow citizens regardless of their choices, and blinds us to key values such as the desire to live in a society of equals. In this book he proposes a remedy.
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