Is democracy receding?
Foreign Affairs: There are fewer major policy disagreements between left-wing and right-wing parties today than within any pre-1932 party. So something certainly has changed.
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A perfect storm is brewing for democracy: globalisation, immigration, populism, wealth inequality, the 2008 economic recession, the Iraq War’s legacy and a rising China. Yet everyone seems comfortable with this transition.
People say "left" and "right" are defunct, to be replaced by the binary
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Is democracy receding?
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