How Stable Are Democracies? ‘Warning Signs Are Flashing Red’

November 26, 2016 Amanda Taub, The Interpreter
WASHINGTON — Yascha Mounk is used to being the most pessimistic person in the room. Mr. Mounk, a lecturer in government at Harvard, has spent the past few years challenging one of the bedrock assumptions of Western politics: that once a country becomes a liberal democracy, it will stay that way. His research suggests something…