According to the Pew survey of 2025, nearly 60 percent of participants from 23 countries expressed dissatisfaction with democracy. In the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, public services such as infectious disease identification, youth employment, and rail services have been affected by weak state capacity. The article concludes that democracies need to build new institutions, close outdated bodies, and adopt AI-era-appropriate operational methods. There is growing acceptance that democracies worldwide have faced internal crises over the past decade.
At the beginning of 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic entered the United States. At that time, the US government was spending about $600 million annually on infectious disease identification. Despite this, the virus managed to spread unnoticed for nearly a month. Due to bureaucratic complexities, researchers were not permitted to conduct swab tests to identify the virus. Following the pandemic, the UK government has spent billions of pounds on youth employment services. However, the number of youths aged 16 to 24 who are not engaged in employment, education, or training has exceeded one million.
In many parts of the United States and Europe, people compare the speeches delivered by political party leaders with the reality they witness firsthand. The information they hear often does not align with their actual experiences. As a result, disappointment and distrust among the public have increased. To resolve the current crisis, democracies must become accustomed to building new institutions. Addressing the problems seen in democracies today will require many efforts, but if governments fail to fulfill their commitments, no other solution will be sustainable.
