Four Views of Fragile, Fierce Democracies
On France, South Korea, Georgia, Romania, and the constant pull of authoritarian rule
It’s been a rough year for democracy—or rather, a rough year for the concept of democracy. What is it? Where is it? And when we talk about democracies in decline, how often are we contrasting today’s democratic struggles with a rose-tinted view of democracies come before? Is democracy dying, or undergoing a long-overdue moult?
On one level, one might say…
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