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Jan-Werner Müller

Jan-Werner Müller is Professor of Politics at Princeton University. He is currently a fellow at the Berlin Institute of Advanced Study. His next book, Democracy Rules, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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Politics

What Are Parties For?

Basic norms exist for political parties; Republicans don’t meet them.

Jan-Werner Müller

Politics

Democracy for Losers

Some candidates who lose elections strengthen democracy, but others threaten the democratic system itself.

Jan-Werner Müller

Politics

Real Citizens

Trump shows us that populism is not the same as legitimate protest—or democracy.

Jan-Werner Müller

Class & Inequality, Philosophy & Religion

A Shared Fate

Europeans might accept supranational democracy in theory, but cannot see it as part of their lives.

Jan-Werner Müller

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

Making Muslim Democracies

The history of Christian Democracy provides both reasons for optimism in Turkey. 

Jan-Werner Müller

Arts in Society, Class & Inequality

After the Double No

The EU’s best hope.

Jan-Werner Müller

       

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