Ruling the Void: The Hollowing of Western Democracy
License
Cadmus Permanent Link
Full-text via DOI
ISBN
ISSN
0028-6060
Issue Date
Type of Publication
Keyword(s)
LC Subject Heading
Other Topic(s)
EUI Research Cluster(s)
Initial version
Published version
Succeeding version
Preceding version
Published version part
Earlier different version
Initial format
Author(s)
Citation
New Left Review, 2006, 42, 25-51
Cite
MAIR, Peter, Ruling the Void: The Hollowing of Western Democracy, New Left Review, 2006, 42, 25-51 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/6418
Abstract
The hollowing of democracies, as ruling elites retreat and voters abstain from mass electoral politics. Peter Mair on the paradoxes of its ‘third wave’ triumph and emergence of a governing class bereft of legitimacy, as parties become appendages of the state.