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Democracy has planted new flags in recent years, notably in Spain, Ar- gentina, and Greece. But Huntington, a Harvard political scientist, is not optimistic about the overall prospects for the spread of representa- tive government.
For more than a century after the American Revolution, democracy was on the rise around the world. Its momentum faltered around 1920, only to revive...