Electoral Democracy: 'Fix it or Nix it?'

From today's news and comment:

Democracy in a world of inequality:
'The system we are exporting is wilting under under egoism's rule'

One or two reforms won't fix our democracy:
'Our constitutional arrangements are like a very large and old machine with innumerable moving parts'

From Chomsky's blog:

Privatization of Services, the "Free Market" & Democracy

From 1970:
Government in the Future