The renowned British political scientist talks about the danger of manipulation in the super election year of 2024, the difference between Trump and Putin, an impending shift to the right in Europe and what politics has to do with a tube of toothpaste.
Professor Ansell, more than 60 countries are voting this year, including many democracies. Will the world have a few less of them at the end of the year?
When half of humanity goes to the polls this year, only around two billion of them will have their voices really matter, because they will vote in free and fair elections. I don’t think we will lose these democracies. But one thing is clear: at least since the Arab Spring, we have been in a democratic lull. There will be no return to the democratic world order like at the end of the Cold War.
Source: Stern
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