May 26, 2000

Why Is Democracy More Popular Than Democracies?

By SUSAN J. PHARR and ROBERT D. PUTNAM

Twenty-five years ago, Michel Crozier, Samuel P. Huntington, and Joji Watanuki sparked a heated debate by claiming that the world's richest and best-established democracies (the United States, Canada, the nations of Western Europe, and Japan) confronted a "crisis of democracy." In a far-ranging report by that name, they held that governments in those so-called Trilateral nations were trapped between rising demands from citizens and declining resources to meet those

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