Democracy Questioned

Every society has to answer the core questions of power: With whom does it rest? How is it wrested? How is it expressed? To answer these questions, humanity has experimented, at different times and in different places, with different forms of government; tweaking, syncretizing and discarding systems as we go along. Democracy has come to occupy a sacrosanct place in the global political conversation. A mere mention of its name in said conversation provides the sometimes-specious patina of legitim

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