A review of Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times: The Citizenry and the Breakdown of Democracy, by Nancy Bermeo.
About the Author
Frances Hagopianis Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer in government at Harvard University, and author of Reorganizing Representation in Latin America (forthcoming).
“Democratic deconsolidation” on the level of attitudes and beliefs is real, and behind it lies a disturbing rise in tolerance for antisocial behavior, especially among the young.