Dictator Envy
Watching China’s economic planning process, Indians may be tempted to ditch democracy. Here’s why they shouldn’t. Read Here – The Diplomat
Tag: Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy At Crossroads – Like Always?
There is no decade from the past century when it is not possible to find an extended debate among commentators and intellectuals in the democratic West about the inadequacies of democratic politics. This is not true of only those decades when Western democracy was clearly on the ropes, like the 1930s, when it was menaced […]
New Lessons For China
More than a century and a half after it was published, Alexis de Tocqueville’s “The Old Regime and the Revolution” has become an unlikely best-seller in China. Wang Qishan, China’s anti-corruption czar, is reportedly among the senior leaders obsessed with what he sees as the book’s cautionary message: that increasing prosperity and piecemeal political reform didn’t protect France’s pre-revolutionary regime […]
looking beyond borders 