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Melissa S. Williams

Melissa S. Williams is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto.

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Today, it would be hard to find a serious intellectual who would argue that representative democracy is functioning adequately even where it has lasted longest. And newer democracies have been reverting to...
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