ABSTRACT
This chapter puts the case that, following the post-World War II period of democratic growth, and in particular the period since the end of the Cold War, democracy has gone into decline. This decline can be measured, as the chapter shows, and some of the manifestations of this decline are illustrated. But, critically, this chapter proposes the reasons for this decline reflect changing economic paradigms and their consequences, profound technological change and the changes to competing centers of global power.
