2024 Will Be the Biggest Election Year in World History
And That’s Not Good News for Democracy
2024 will be the biggest election year in history. Some 4.2 billion people, or more than half of humanity, live in the 76 countries that are scheduled to hold national voting.
Can democracy survive it?
That question may sound cynical. Much of the world has been taught to equate elections with democracy, and to think of voting as a civic sacrament.
“The vote is a trust more delicate than any other,” wrote the 19th-century poet José Martí, a martyr of Cuban independence, “for it involves …
