President Trump can herald a new stronger face of democracy in America

Political pundits are shocked and alarmed by Trump’s victory and have suggested it spells the beginning of the end of Western democracy. Dr Laurence Davis, College Lecturer in Government, UCC believes, instead, that it marks the opening of a new chapter characterised by both enormous risk and possibility.

First Brexit and now President Trump.

In years to come, 2016 will be remembered as a watershed moment in the history of democracy.