Western democracy is under threat in many countries across the world. But it’s not driven by inequality or the feeling of the small guy to be left behind.

The big, mainstream political parties are sabotaging themselves. They don't recognise opposition as legitimate political players anymore and have given up on any restrains that protected democratic values in the past

Are democracies dying? presented by The American Academy in Berlin. December 5, 2019.

Speaker

Daniel Ziblatt - Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Harvard University and Axel Springer Fellow, autumn 2019 at The American Academy in Berlin