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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.
Basic norms exist for political parties; Republicans don’t meet them.
Some candidates who lose elections strengthen democracy, but others threaten the democratic system itself.
Trump shows us that populism is not the same as legitimate protest—or democracy.
Europeans might accept supranational democracy in theory, but cannot see it as part of their lives.
The history of Christian Democracy provides both reasons for optimism in Turkey.
The EU’s best hope.
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