Democracy is an illusion

Political Science, 2000

Voting is pointless. The world is controlled by an elite.

In 2000, Colin Couch published “Coping with Post-Democracy” for the Fabian Society. He describes it as a system which “continues to have and to use all the institutions of democracy, but in which they increasingly become a formal shell”.

• https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?&year_start=1950&year_end=2019&content=post+democracy
• https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=post+democracy
• https://www.amazon.co.uk/Coping-Post-Democracy-Fabian-Pamphlets/dp/0716305984