So after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent end of the Cold War, many experts predicted that democracy would flourish and spread and that Soviet authoritarianism was an aberration. Well, we've had 35 years now to run this natural experiment and to ask whether or not that was actually true. And we're now in a position where we can ask the question, is democracy spreading.And unfortunately the answer to this question is not really. Over the last several decades democracy has faced many many headwi ...