A New Era of Political Democracy

The results of the first round of the French presidential election have repeated the late Peter Mair's seminal thesis, published in 2013, that the "era of party democracy has passed." The expert on European politics predicted that new parties or movements will emerge in modern democracies, as we have seen with La République En Marche (LRM), the Five Star Movement in Italy, and the Pirates and ANO in the Czech Republic. A r....