In 1947, former British prime minister Winston Churchill famously observed that: “Many forms of government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”
Western democracy now finds itself in a parlous state By Richard Cullen
This aphorism has been repeated countless times since, especially by those advocating the increased adoption of the Western democratic model of electoral politics around the globe.