https://www.scmp.com/rss/502382/feed Nick West is an American writer and systems engineer at the University of Hong Kong. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Many people around the world regard democracy dogmatically, treating it as a religious imperative, a human right, an inefficiency or a threat to power. The truth about democracy is that it is none of these; democracy is a governing tool, a system through which a government may realise the will of its people, a method of converting popular consensus into an effective governing mandate. As Hong Kong struggles through months of the anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill uprising, with anonymous police... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3031811/fix-hong-kongs-politics-and-we-can-fix-its-frustrations-too?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3031811/fix-hong-kongs-politics-and-we-can-fix-its-frustrations-too?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 07 Oct 2019 04:15:52 +0000