The Tide Underneath the “Third Wave”

A review of Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe, by Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan.

A review of The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution by Francis Fukuyama.

That modern democracy first arose with the ambit of Western Christianity is far from an accident. Today, the major Christain communions largely support democracy, even while necessarily retaining the right…