Publicado por Ricardo Alonso Maturana
24/05/2011
In his new book, The Origins of Political Order, the author of the The End of History lays down the conditions required for a nation to become a democracy. He talks to Stephen Moss about his fears for our immediate future – but why he is still an optimistI don't think there's any particular reason why, if you are a liberal democracy, you can't decay. Your institutions can get too rigid; your ideas can get too rigid. I think right now a lot of developed democracies are going to have to renegotiate their basic social contract, because a lot of the welfare state arrangements are just not sustainable, and that's something democracies are really not good atStephen MossThe Guardian, Article history