If you think about it, democracy has always been a strange concept. The majority – the poorer, less educated members of society with no experience of wielding power – get to control the elite who have the property, the wealth and the history of governing. This seems to go against nature and it is hardly surprising that in antiquity, some oligarchs saw democracy as enslavement to the mob.Despite this contradiction, democracy in various forms has thrived from its origins in ancient Greece. In the 1990s, the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama hailed liberal democracy as the “end of history", the...