Is liberal democracy in terminal decline | FT #shorts

Opinion: It can be easy to lapse into the view that the rise of liberal democracy over the past two centuries was an inevitable and natural part of humanity’s forward march — a one-way journey to a better way of doing things. But this is not the case,' the FT's chief data reposter, John Burn-Murdoch writes.⁠ ⁠ In a striking pattern most recently highlighted by US political economist Matthew Burgess, the advance of liberal democracy through the developed world has tended to track economic growth. This is not ...