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“... nature of the state. The ominous lack of such an argument in European politics is what has driven Larry Siedentop to attempt to instigate one in Democracy in Europe. He lists ‘superstate’, alongside ‘subsidiarity’, ‘economic sovereignty’, ‘rationalisation’ and ‘Europe plc’, as one of the terms that has ‘denatured the political ...”

“... Fawcett, a former Economist journalist who seems aware of its crisis of credibility, Alan Ryan and Larry Siedentop continue to uphold liberalism as a universal ideology to which all political progress has been leading. ‘The only morally acceptable form of democracy’, Ryan writes, is ‘liberal democracy’, and liberalism gives ‘the ordinary person ...”