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Books by Yascha Mounk

Yascha Mounk is a political scientist at Johns Hopkins University and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Born in Germany to Polish-Jewish parents, he has written extensively on democracy, populism, and identity, including The Great Experiment, which examines diverse democracies. He is a contributing editor at The Atlantic and the founder of the newsletter Persuasion. His comparative perspective — informed by direct experience of European and American politics — distinguishes his analysis from most American commentators on democratic backsliding.