<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Dante-Gabryell Monson</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dante.monson@gmail.com">dante.monson@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 7:41 AM<br>Subject: "Post Democracy"<br>To: "<a href="mailto:econowmix@googlegroups.com">econowmix@googlegroups.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:econowmix@googlegroups.com">econowmix@googlegroups.com</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aTtHH32Ycc" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aTtHH32Ycc</a><br><br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-democracy" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-democracy</a><br><br>The term post-democracy was coined by Warwick University political scientist Colin Crouch in 2000 in his book Coping with Post-Democracy. It designates states that are conducted by fully operating democratic systems (elections are being 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?[1] for the think tank Policy Network and in his subsequent book The Strange Non-Death of Neo-Liberalism.<br><br></div>
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