Voting alone does not constitute the full work of democracy

Evidence

Elections are important, but they are hardly the only work of democracy. For too long we’ve been sold a bill of goods that this person or that one will do what we need, if only we can get them elected. This promise wants us to believe that voting is democracy. But that’s only half true. Sure, we must work overtime (sadly) to ensure that no one rolls back the gains of the Voting Rights Act and that everyone has access to the ballot. But the work of democracy does not end with elections. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 616

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Frankfurt School notion of formal democracy masking substantive domination, and general critique of electoralism as a replacement for ongoing political work. — connects to: Deliberative politics is constitutive of democracy, not a regulative ideal — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 54; Because election results bind all citizens, voting should proceed from joint deliberation — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 101; Participation without control over parameters is not democracy but its evisceration — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 247 (+6 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 616