A record 1.5 billion people voted in 2014, but the democratic process can be fragile at best and corrupt at worst, and is not in itself a recipe for positive changeMore than 1.5 billion people voted around the world in 2014 in over 100 elections that endorsed the appeal of democracy as an idea, if not always as a system of government.The polls ran from the vast and complex to tiny local affairs in which most voters knew each other, and which might have seemed familiar to the Greek city states that pioneered the idea of citizens choosing their own leaders more than two millennia ago. Continue reading...
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