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Review title: how to get there from here
Product review: Mr. Zakaria's key insight is to distinguish between democracy as a process to elect governments, and constitutional liberalism (i.e. the rule of law where individual rights are protected) as a resulting government which citizens want. He then reviews efforts to introduce democracy before consitutional liberalism and the reverse.This book is very insightful, particularly as we grapple with how to extend the benefits of open societies to other cultures. He also has insights about how to improve our own government, which might be suffering from the ills of democracy sliding into demagoguery. Solution? Like Madison said in the Federalist Papers, get the checks and balances right so tyranny of the majority of the moment doesn't destroy the whole system. Read this one, and I guarantee you will start giving it to your friends.
