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BBC's democracy timeline

posted by John MacFarlane at 10h09 GMT on Oct 12

BBC News, with the help of Professor Dennis Kavanagh of Liverpool University, and Professor John Keane, of Westminster University, has compiled an animated historical timeline detailing the history of democracy. From early forms in ancient Mesopotamia through Lech Walesa's election victory in Poland in 1990 until today, it's all there. Or most of it, anyway.

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