The Trouble with Democracy

Shows why the perception that we live in an era of human rights and incessant democratisation is dangerously misleading Western political thought has long maintained that democracy, once achieved, is here to stay. This view appears to be supported by successive 'waves of democratisation' across the world but, in truth, the political situation of our time is much more ambiguous. On the one hand, the commitment to democracy seems to be more widely shared than ever; on the other, popular will has e