Challenges to Democracy

Challenges to Democracy David Canter explores the three interacting corrosive cycles that destroys democracies – limiting effective education, destroying a free press and limiting the independence of the judiciary. In mid-19th-century Britain there was deep concern, and much debate, about introducing effective democracy. Many treated the idea that all adults should be able to vote with a mixture of horror and fear. Voting was seen as a serious matter that required knowledge and intelligence as..