All of the West is going through a period of “democratic fatigue”, to use the term of the diagnosis delivered by France Stratégiein a recent report entitled “Lignes de faille” (Faultlines). The only patient examined by this think tank which answers to the French prime minister was France but the symptoms it observes are not unique to that country. The summary by Gérard Courtois (Le Monde, 19/10/2016)makes this clear: “drop in turn-outs at elections, down by an average of 20%...