Abstract: The extent to which the emergence of political parties and multi-party elections mark the path to genuinely plural politics varies greatly. Conventional wisdom that multi-party democracy and free elections were both a good thing in their own right and formed a large part of establishing a functioning democracy has begun to be questioned not only by academics but by democratic support practitioners. Nevertheless, democracy remains 'the worst system of government, except for all the others'.
Publication Year: 2000
Publication Date: 2000-10-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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