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Democracy Is Faltering. Business Must Help Strengthen It.
Democracy Is in Trouble. Business Must Help Fix It.
27 Jul 2020
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Strengthening democracy is the only way to ensure the survival of free-market capitalism. Recent survey data paints a sobering picture: Fifty-five percent of Americans say that their democracy is “weak,” and 68% fear it is getting weaker. Roughly half agree that America is in “real danger of becoming a nondemocratic, authoritarian country.” If government is the counterweight to the free market, democracy is the force that ensures that governments do not devolve into tyranny, seizing control of the markets in the process. The…
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