Uncertainties of a Democratic Age

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

Over the years, the Asian Barometer Survey has yielded some surprising results. A new typological analysis helps to make sense of them.

Ten of the world’s twelve largest countries are “electoral democracies.” Yet a look at politics beneath the national level reveals patterns of illiberalism that mark out a new frontier for…