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Annabelle Lever, « Bastille Magazine: Peut-on sauver la démocratie ? engl version », HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), ID : 10670/1.9045c5...
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We know less about democracy than we often think, forgetting that universal suffrage in most countries is quite recent, and that women were excluded from the vote as late as the 1940s in France and the 1970s in Switzerland. In fact, universal male suffrage was usually no such thing, as it was riddled with the exclusion of groups such as domestic servants, and those on welfare benefits who were, like women and children, supposed to lack the independence of mind and action required for self-government. In view of that history, it should be no surprise that we know so little about the theory and practice of democracy and, most particularly, so little about how to organize and finance it in a world where most citizens work and are liable to share in the unpaid care of children and elderly relatives.
