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The German political scientist puts the strengths and weaknesses of democracy under the microscope, from Hungary to the United States via Russia.
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“Qhat is really essential to democracy? » asks political scientist Jan-Werner Müller, a rising star of political thought in the United States. In Freedom, equality, uncertainty (Premier Parallèle), this German academic based in Princeton lists the conditions necessary for the proper functioning of democracy. There is urgency insofar as our model of government is questioned by populists who accuse it of biasing with popular sovereignty. And that it faces competition from authoritarian regimes that pride themselves on being superior in efficiency.
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