Tiered Democratic Governance

An Alternative to Western Democracy

Graphic by Subha Brota Nath

My maternal grandfather was of the peasant classes in Bukovina, Ukraine. After the tumult of World War I and the Russian Civil War, he experienced a change of governance in which he had no say. He saw the transition merely as one group of elites being replaced another group of elites. As a young man, he envisioned more opportunity and freedom — and…