DEMOCRACY AT RISK
VOL. 9, NO. 1, PGS. 6–9

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Democracy at a Crossroads: Ideals, Challenges, and the Path Forward
A conversation with Colin Crouch

Colin Crouch is Professor Emeritus at Warwick Business School, a Fellow of the British Academy, a member of the Academy of Social Sciences, an External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Social Research at Cologne, and a former president of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE). He is also the author of Post-Democracy.

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What defines true democracy? Is it an ideal, or can it be fully realized in practice?

“True” democracy would mean every citizen participating equally in all decisions. We can never attain this outside very small communities. We therefore shift to representative democracy, where we elect people who do the work for us. Democracy becomes this process of election. But this is very remote from the ideal. [...]

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