German-American political scientist at Johns Hopkins SAIS, founder of Persuasion magazine and The Good Fight podcast. Author of The People vs. Democracy, The Great Experiment, and The Identity Trap. A center-liberal voice focused on the health of democratic institutions, illiberalism on both left and right, and the politics of pluralistic societies.
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Yascha Mounk
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Bio, position statements, and per-vote analysis are editorial work — see ROADMAP M4/M5 for the corpus expansion plan.
editorial · last refreshed 5/26/2026.Bio, position statements, and per-vote analysis are editorial work — see ROADMAP M4/M5 for the corpus expansion plan.