The Great Experiment - How to Make Diverse Democracies Work

* SELECTED FOR BARACK OBAMA''S SUMMER READING LIST 2022 * ''Anyone interested in the future of liberal democracy should read this book'' ANNE APPLEBAUM---------- One of our most important political thinkers looks to the greatest challenge of our time: how to live together equally and peacefully in diverse democracies. It''s easy to be pessimistic about the fate of democracy in multi-ethnic societies. At the end of the Second World War, fewer than one in twenty-five people living in the UK were born abroad; now it is one in seven. The history of humankind is a story of us versus them, and the project of diverse democracies is a relatively new one - it is, in other words, a great experiment. How do identity groups with different ideologies and beliefs live together? Is it possible to embark on a democracy with shared values if our values are at odds? Yascha Mounk argues that group identity is both deeply rooted and malleable. No community is beyond conciliation: groups are moving towards cooperation across the world. The Great Experiment offers a profound understanding of the problem behind all our other problems, and genuine hope for our capacity to solve it.>

Product details

• Authors: Yascha Mounk
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2023
• EAN: 9781526630155
• ISBN: 978-1-5266-3015-5
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Sociology & anthropology, Sociology and anthropology