ABSTRACT
Opinions regarding the health and future prospects of democracy sometimes change radically and rapidly. In 1976 during the American Bicentennial, Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote: 4... liberal democracy on the American model increasingly tends to the condition of monarchy in the nineteenth century: a holdover form of government, one which persists in isolated or peculiar places here and there, and which may even serve well enough for special circumstances, but which simply has no relevance to the future.’1
