Singapore and Switzerland - guidelines for the future

Singapore: such mega-cities as this "garden city", from the point of view of Para Hanna, are global "assembly points" and the most important catalysts for democracy.

An American political scientist with Indian roots Paraga Hannu could be seen in recent months on all major television channels of the world and at the most representative events of the global political "get-togethers", including the Davos forum.

This is not surprising: with its sometimes very provocatively formulated theses, it is guaranteed to get into the center of interest every time and where and when it comes to the future of democracy and whether people should be driven to democratic "happiness" by the iron and wise hand of an enlightened ruler , as it happened in Singapore, or to the fore, as in Switzerland, should be put a civil initiative?

At the same time Parag Hannah is a staunch supporter and propagandist of direct democracy of the Swiss model. Oh, well, you often say that the Swiss themselves, as well as Switzerland's representatives abroad, for example, diplomats: Swiss democracy is so special that you do not even have to try and transfer it abroad! And is it so? If you believe Paragu Hann, then in many ways it's all from the evil one.

Of course, the forms and technical ways of solving this problem can be very different, however, it is precisely this feedback of the authorities and citizens that is, in Singapore, that in Switzerland, the guarantor of the prosperity and stability of these countries. Well, today I agreed to meet and talk with him tete-a-tete, in order to first-hand find out what he thinks about the prospects for democracy in the modern world, especially since, as it turns out, Parag Hanna speaks remarkably well in German, in than you can see by looking at our small video below.