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“Even now, backers of democracy have doubts. Do we really feel that the approved, Western variety of democracy - ballot box, poll, stock exchange and supermarket - awaits us at the end of history, as Francis Fukuyama suggested? Democracy is revered as the last civic religion capable of uniting humanity. At rock concerts and over chardonnay at human-rights events, we celebrate freedom, while reminding ourselves how far short humanity falls of its ideals. Within what remains of the doctrinaire left, it’s fashionable to bemoan such effusions. But the cult of democracy in our time is real enough and cannot be ascribed solely to the triumph of hope over experience. It should be possible to believe in democracy and retain a degree of scepticism, but this appears difficult.” - What is Democracy?”

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