{"id":3977,"date":"2017-07-16T00:43:37","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T22:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.liebetanz.com\/hsl\/?p=517"},"modified":"2017-07-16T00:43:37","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T22:43:37","slug":"democracies-not-attractive-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liebetanz.com\/blog\/?p=3977","title":{"rendered":"Democracies not attractive anymore?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/29\/world\/americas\/western-liberal-democracy.html\">How Stable Are Democracies? &#8216;Warning Signs Are Flashing Red&#8217;<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Yascha Mounk is used to being the most pessimistic person in the room. Mr. Mounk, a lecturer in government at Harvard, has spent the past few years challenging one of the bedrock assumptions of Western politics: that once a country becomes a liberal democracy, it will stay that way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Stable Are Democracies? &#8216;Warning Signs Are Flashing Red&#8217; Yascha Mounk is used to being the most pessimistic person in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liebetanz.com\/blog\/?p=3977\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Democracies not attractive anymore?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wpoai_wizard_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,98],"tags":[77,120],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-horst","4":"post-3977","6":"format-standard","7":"category-politics","8":"category-social-sciences","9":"post_tag-democracy","10":"post_tag-government"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liebetanz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liebetanz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liebetanz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liebetanz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liebetanz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.liebetanz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liebetanz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liebetanz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liebetanz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}