A review of Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times: The Citizenry and the Breakdown of Democracy, by Nancy Bermeo.
About the Author
Frances Hagopianis Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer in government at Harvard University, and author of Reorganizing Representation in Latin America (forthcoming).
For all the concern over authoritarianism’s advance, the competence of governance may be what determines the next chapter in the struggle between democracy and dictatorship.
