A review by lynnoleum
The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It by Yascha Mounk

fast-paced

3.0

Easy read, maybe a little too easy ? It gives an overview of the decline of liberal democracy with easy to understand diagrams of the models of nation states/supranational states. There's the concept of illiberal democracies (eg poland) and undemocratic liberalism (eg EU). he credits the changes to three conditions which have been underpinning the durability  of liberal democracy as the reasons for the decline of liberalism and democracy - the erosion of mass media as gatekeepers of shared values by fragmented social media echo chambers, the economic stagnation and the disruption of monoethnic nations by migration. However I'm not sure that the quality of the data used to back up those claims are robust. They seem more anecdotal and scholarship is generalised in this book, probably to reach a mass market of American readers. Fell short imho.