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The last three decades have seen considerable erosion of liberal democracy across many countries. Building on his 2023 BESS paper on the widening ‘trust divide’ between the electorate and the elected, Fergus Neilson sets out three clear principles – covering systems of government, institutional balance and societal trust – that would help reverse the broader trend toward autocracy.
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