"What's Gone Wrong with Democracy , , , and how to revive it"

The cover story in the current (March 1-7) issue of The Economist is called "What's Gone Wrong with Democracy . . . and how to revive it."  If you are able to track it down (without a subscription), it's worth a read.  It was a bit strange to me, though, that religion and religious freedom were nearly invisible in the discussion about the conditions and enablers of stable democracy.  Indeed, it seemed a pretty big oversight to miss even the possibility that some religious traditions might "do better" than others at producing and nurturing stable democracies.  Putting that aside, at the very least, there is good reason to believe that religious freedom correlates positively with (sustainable) democratization.  The authors should take a look at Dan Philpott et al.'s God's Century . . .