POST-DEMOCRACY is a follow-on from Colin Crouch’s previous book, published in 2003, about the threats to democracy that have been emerging in many advanced capitalist countries.

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As if this wasn’t disturbing enough, Crouch argues in his new work, his analysis was written before the financial crisis in 2008 and the situation has been deteriorating even further since then.