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Democracy in Australia
David Yencken

“In 1989, the American scholar Francis Fukuyama wrote a famous essay called The End of History?. This is the way he subsequently summarised the argument in the essay.

I argued that a remarkable consensus concerning the legitimacy of liberal democracy as a system of government had emerged throughout the world over the past few years, as it conquered rival ideologies like hereditary monarchy, fascism, and most recently communism …”