“It is extremely difficult to make democracy work. It is not enough to merely have the right to vote and freedom of expression. Democracy requires intricate mechanisms to establish links between vote and the citizen’s  self interest, between taxes paid and services received and most of all, between authority exercised and accountability enforced. FDR’s work is primarily to identify and push the critical levers of change, above partisanship and polarisation, so that our democracy can really deliver  results to the  citizens.”