Is There an Example of a Diverse Democracy?

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When demoxy was founded in the late eighteenth century, most attempts at self government had gone really badly wrong. Now to day a, you know, is the first time in the history of ta world, thar, we have a large number of ethnically and religiously diverse democracies ver ing to treat all their citizens as genuine equals. We've ended up in the situation, and we'd better make it work, for that's the meaning of tha great experiment, which is the title of my book. And are we it? Is it really ingidoisias te example of a diverse democracy, fit works perfectly? E wey, you can look at and say, ve's no issues

Yascha Mounk is a professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, a contributing writer at The Atlantic, and the founder of Persuasion. His new book, The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure, was published this week.

In this week’s conversation, Ravi Gupta and Yascha Mounk discuss why it is so hard to build diverse democracies, how we can overcome the deeply human instinct to discriminate against those unlike ourselves, and why he remains optimistic about the prospects of the “great experiment.”

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