Beyond its scant chance of success, the effort to spread standardised western democracy suffers from a fundamental paradox. It’s conceived as a solution to the dangerous transnational problems of our day [but] a growing part of human life now occurs beyond the influence of voters, in transnational public and private entities that have no electorates, or at least no democratic ones.

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