Published: December 22, 2018
Over time, politicians, parties and governments have become less responsive to a broad cross-section of citizens
Liberal democracy in the west is facing its greatest crisis in decades, challenged from within by populists and from without by authoritarianism in Russia, China and elsewhere. Reflecting what is becoming a widespread view, Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s rightwing prime minister, recently proclaimed: “The era of liberal democracy is over.”
What went wrong? Many analysts focus on economic problems. Slow growth, rising inequality, and welfare-state cutbacks have made life more insecure for the working and middle classes and spread economic risk, fear of the future, and social divisions throughout western societies.
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