The Crisis Of Democracy.  Report on the Governability of Democracies to the Trilateral Commission
In the 1970s Samuel P.Huntington first ‘big idea' was the notion that there was a ‘crisis in democracy' which was due to a ‘democratic surge' which was making Western-style democracies ungovernable and endangering authority ‘based on hierarchy, expertise and wealth'. The patrician Huntington was disturbed by the demands for popular power and extended economic rights that had grown out of the social movements of the 1960s. His report for the Trilateral Commission rang the alarm bells about this excess of democracy.
Международное положение, которое сложилось из-за нефтяного кризиса (пятикратного увеличений странами ОПЕК цены на сырую нефть начиная с октября 1973 года), описывалось марксистами как структурный кризис капитализма, а либералами - как кризис демократии