The People vs Democracy: Why Our Freedom is in Danger and How to Save It
by Yascha Mounk (Harvard, £21.95)
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt (Viking, £16.99)
Liberals in developed countries have been used to winning almost every argument for economic and cultural openness over the past 30 years. And they have not in the main been reacting calmly to the apparent end to this golden era.