Problems of Democracies
The central thesis of the assignment, was that the Trilateral democracies were becoming overloaded by increasingly insistent demands from an ever-expanding array of participants, raising fundamental issues of governability. Within that common framework, the some authors offered somewhat distinct diagnoses of the problems facing their respective regions. In Europe, you can see the upwelling of social mobilization, the collapse of traditional institutions and values, the resulting loss of social control, and governments' limited room for acting. America was absorbed by a "democratic surge" that had produced political polarization, demands for more equality and participation, and less effective political parties and government. So the cure for it was to "restore the balance" between democracy and governability. By contrast Japan did not face problems of "excessive" democracy, thanks in part to rapid economic growth and in part to its larger reservoir of traditional values. Whatever the regional and national nuances, however, the authors sketched a grim outlook for democracy in the Trilateral countries: delegitimated leadership, expanded demands, overloaded government, political competition that was both
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Approximate Word count = 8009
Approximate Pages = 32 (250 words per page double spaced)
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