Is more democracy the answer to our problems?

Part 1 of 2

Democracy has been the byword of the past decade. Defences of it and fears over its existence continue unabated as we had into the new year. Perhaps these are well warranted, after-all we have witnessed the third wave of democracy gradually recede from the zenith of the early noughties. Yet, many such democracies were relatively new and not fully insti…