The Catalyst · Fall 2017 · Issue 8 · October 13, 2017
Democracy in Decline
Yascha Mounk set off a heated discussion this year when the New America senior fellow wrote in the Journal of Democracy that democracy is at risk of being in decline in the U.S. and industrialized democracies.
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Yascha Mounk
Lecturer on Government at Harvard University; Senior Fellow in the Political Reform Program at New America
Mounk, a lecturer in government at Harvard University, participated in a democracy discussion at the Bush Institute in May. He spoke then with Catalyst Editor William McKenzie about the factors he believes are contributing to a decline in the value of democratic freedoms.