Democracy as a Universal Value
@article{Sen1999DemocracyAA,
title={Democracy as a Universal Value},
author={A. Sen},
journal={Journal of Democracy},
year={1999},
volume={10},
pages={17 - 3}
}In the summer of 1997, I was asked by a leading Japanese newspaper what I thought was the most important thing that had happened in the twentieth century. I found this to be an unusually thought-provoking question, since so many things of gravity have happened over the last hundred years. The European empires, especially the British and French ones that had so dominated the nineteenth century, came to an end. We witnessed two world wars. We saw the rise and fall of fascism and Nazism. The… CONTINUE READING
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