Democracy Kills: What's So Good about the Vote?
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For many years, Western governments have insisted that the only way to achieve long-term prosperity and political stability is through a combination of free-market economics and democratic government. In this book, Humphrey Hawksley offers a vivid - and frequently devastating - analysis of our devotion to democracy.
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