Back ديمقراطية شمولية Arabic Totalitní demokracie Czech Totalitäre Demokratie German Democracia totalitaria Spanish Totaalne demokraatia Estonian דמוקרטיה טוטליטרית HE Demokrasi totaliter ID Democrazia totalitaria Italian ტოტალიტარული დემოკრატია Georgian Demokracja totalitarna Polish
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Totalitarian democracy is a term popularized by Israeli historian Jacob Leib Talmon to refer to a system of government in which lawfully elected representatives maintain a nation state whose citizens, while granted the right to vote, have little or no participation in the decision-making process of the government.[1] This idea that there is one true way for a society to be organized and a government should get there at all costs stands in contrast to liberal democracy which trusts the process of democracy to, through trial and error, help a society improve without there being only one correct way to self-govern.[1] Totalitarian democracy is equivalent to electoral autocracy.[citation needed]
The phrase had previously been used by Bertrand de Jouvenel[2] and E. H. Carr,[3] and subsequently by F. William Engdahl[4] and Sheldon S. Wolin.[5]
- ^ a b Talmon, J. L. The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy. Britain: Secker & Warburg, 1968.
- ^ de Juvenel, Bertrand. On Power: Its Nature and the History of its Growth, Salt Lake City: Hutchinson, 1948.
- ^ Carr, Edward Hallett. The Soviet Impact on the Western World. New York: MacMillan Company, 1947.
- ^ Engdahl, F. William. Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order. Boxboro, MA: Third Millennium Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9795608-6-6.
- ^ Wolin, Sheldon S. Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010.
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