Is Bourgeois representative democracy democratic? An example from 2010-2014 Is it a democracy when none of its representatives were endorsed by even half of their constituents? There are 650 MPs. If we rank them all by this measure of legitimacy, the median MP won 30.1 per cent of their votes, which is very similar to the mean winning margin (30.6 per cent). 14 sitting MPs were backed by less than a fifth of their constituents. In other words, most MPs are endorsed by less a third of their constituency.
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51