“任何对自由民主的未来感兴趣的人都应该读这本书”
安妮·阿普勒鲍姆
我们最重要的政治思想家之一关注我们这个时代最大的挑战：如何在不同的民主国家中平等和平地生活在一起。
人们很容易对多民族社会中民主的命运感到悲观。第二次世界大战结束时，生活在英国的25个人中只有不到一个人在国外出生；现在是七分之一。人类的历史是一个我们与他们对抗的故事，而多元民主的项目是一个相对较新的项目——换句话说，这是一个伟大的实验。
不同意识形态和信仰的身份群体如何生活在一起？如果我们的价值观不一致，有可能建立一个有共同价值观的民主吗？
Yascha Mounk认为，群体认同既根深蒂固，又具有可塑性。没有哪个社区能超越和解：各个团体正在走向世界各地的合作。这个伟大的实验让我们深刻理解了所有其他问题背后的问题，并对我们解决问题的能力抱有真正的希望。
The Great Experiment : How to Make Diverse Democracies Work
‘Anyone interested in the future of liberal democracy should read this book’
ANNE APPLEBAUM
One of our most important political thinkers looks to the greatest challenge of our time: how to live together equally and peacefully in diverse democracies.
It’s easy to be pessimistic about the fate of democracy in multi-ethnic societies. At the end of the Second World War, fewer than one in twenty-five people living in the UK were born abroad; now it is one in seven. The history of humankind is a story of us versus them, and the project of diverse democracies is a relatively new one – it is, in other words, a great experiment.
How do identity groups with different ideologies and beliefs live together? Is it possible to embark on a democracy with shared values if our values are at odds?
Yascha Mounk argues that group identity is both deeply rooted and malleable. No community is beyond conciliation: groups are moving towards cooperation across the world. The Great Experiment offers a profound understanding of the problem behind all our other problems, and genuine hope for our capacity to solve it.
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