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The Good Fight

Sagarika Ghose

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

News

4.7963 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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In this episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk talks to Sagarika Ghose, author of Why I Am A Liberal, about the populist threat to liberal democracy in India, the prospects of defeating Narendra Modi, and why liberalism has relevance beyond the West. Email: thegoodfight@newamerica.org Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk This podcast was made in collaboration with New America.  Podcast production by John T. Williams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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explicit lipstick now at nars cosmetics.co. UK. The very fundamentals of the idea of India are being questioned right now and I think a lot is at stake because you know it would be a tragedy if India ceased to be

0:44.6

democratic it's a great liberal democratic experiment and now the good fight

0:51.6

with yasha Monk.

0:54.0

Welcome to the podcast that searches for the ideas, policies and strategies that can be to

0:58.4

for a time populists like Donald Trump over the next four years and the next 40.

1:06.0

For the last years there's been a big debate about the impact of populism.

1:10.9

Some people like me have argued that populists can do real damage to democratic institutions

1:17.0

when you look, for example, at countries like Hungary.

1:22.0

Others have responded that populists might not be so bad after all, that a lot of them

1:26.9

don't tend to do great damage to their countries because they are chaotic and are thrown

1:31.3

out as soon as they are elected. Or that they might even be solitary, that they

1:37.2

actually hold failed elites to account and improve democracy where they are elected.

1:44.0

Well, to settle this really important question,

1:47.0

I teamed up with my colleague Jordan Kyle in a major research effort

1:52.0

and we constructed a first of its kind global

1:55.8

database of populist governments looking at over 40 governments in over 30

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