September 2018
Indonesia?s Endangered Democracy.
At the end of the 20th century, it appeared that Democracy was on a roll. The UN published the list of once authoritarian countries joining the roster of participatory governments. It appeared that the US had not only defeated the Communists in the Cold War, but had won the war for hearts and minds. Everyone wanted to be a modern democracy.
An analysis by the US Government-funded Freedom House (a think tank) showed that there was not a single liberal democracy with univers more...