Democracy can survive structurally while losing its animating meaning.
Evidence
What if the architecture of democracy is still standing but the meaning, value, and concern for the public good that lived within this framework have left the building? — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 381
Categorization
- recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
- XREF: connects to: Delegitimation erodes democracy slowly rather than through crisis or coup — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 42; Eroded shared reality destroys the possibility of genuine disagreement. — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 374; Democracy can be ended and restored with the same tools — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 1075 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Authoritarian measures can persist within nominally democratic structures via normalized crisis
#exemplifies(0.82) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 7 - Participation without control over parameters is not democracy but its evisceration
#complicates(0.80) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 247 - Conspicuous adherence to democratic process can re-legitimate government
#exemplifies(0.78) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 44 - Stabilized politics make direct legacy influence fade into structure
#expands(0.72) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 135