What ails democratic politics?

Rethinking Democracy is the latest addition to the growing literature on the future of democracy

Rethinking Democracy  

Edited by Andrew Gamble and 

Tony Wright

Wiley, Rs 14.99, 172 pages

There was a time when western political pundits were obsessed with the idea of the imminent death of communism, and for many it became a full-time occupation to write its obituary. And when the “God” eventually did die, we were told the future henceforth belonged to western-style liberal democracy. 

Remember Francis Fukuyama’s triumphal prediction that the collapse of Soviet communism was “not just ... the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such... the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and