For decades, liberal democracy has been extolled as the best system of governance to have emerged out of the long experience of history. Today, such a confident assertion is far from self-evident. Democracy, in crisis across the West, must prove itself.In the West today, the authors argue, we no lon[...]

Democracy is in crisis throughout the Western world. We are no longer part of an "industrial democracy" what we now have could be termed a "democracy of consumption," which has resulted in party systems in many cases crippling. Countries like China, on the other hand, who have long-term leadership p[...]