National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Challenges to Democracy in the 21 st Century Working Paper No. 46 The Beauty and the Beast? A Tale of Democratic Crises and Globalization Marc Bühlmann Center for Democracy Aarau (ZDA) University of Zurich Küttigerstrasse 21 5000 Aarau / Switzerland Phone: +41 (0)62 836 94 48 marc.buehlmann@zda.uzh.ch October 2010