This book is the product of three years of empirical research, four years in politics, and a lifetime in a country experiencing three different regimes. Transce
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An “insightful and harrowing” analysis of the state of Western-style democracy by the Financial Times columnist and author of Time to Start Thinking (The Ne
Liberals blame the global retreat of liberal democracy on globalisation and authoritarian leaders. Only liberalism, so they assume, can defend democratic rule a
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