Post-democratic society
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The term post-democracy was used by Warwick University political scientist Colin Crouch in 2000 in his book "Coping with Post-Democracy". It designates states that operate by democratic systems (elections are held, governments fall, and there is freedom of speech), but whose application is progressively limited. A small elite is taking the tough decisions and co-opts the democratic institutions. Crouch further developed the idea in an article called "Is there a liberalism beyond social democracy?" for the think tank Policy Network and in his subsequent book "The Strange Non-Death of Neo-Liberalism".
The term may also denote a general conception of a post-democratic society that may involve other structures of group decision-making and governance than the ones found in contemporary or historical democracy.[1]
Definition
By Crouch's definition:
- "A post-democratic society is one that continues to have and to use all the institutions of democracy, but in which they increasingly become a formal shell. The energy and innovative drive pass away from the democratic arena and into small circles of a politico-economic elite."
Crouch states that we are not "living in a post-democratic society, but that we were moving towards such a condition".[2]
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Has Western Democracy Now Failed? | blog post | 19 July 2023 | Craig Murray | We live in a post-democratic society. That is difficult to accept, but it is true. |
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