The damage to the American democratic experiment has been vast. (firstthings.com)
One reason why so many democratic experiments have failed recently is that they put too much emphasis on elections and too little on the other essential features of democracy. (politics.stackexchange.com)
Mr Clegg, like his Conservative counterpart, may hint that Britain's social democratic experiment has failed, yet there are still voters keen to see the frontiers of the welfare state advanced. (theguardian.com)