Zombie Democracy (paperback)
Zombie Democracy (paperback)
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Zombie Democracy: The Countries Still Voting After Elections Stopped Working
Christopher Armitage. Paperback, 6 x 9 in, 202 pages. ISBN 979-8-954066-00-5.
How much suppression, intimidation, illegal conduct and tampering is enough to make a country a zombie democracy?
A zombie democracy keeps every ritual: the campaigns, the polling places, the results announced on election night. What it has lost is the point of them. Elections no longer work as a route to reform, and the people in power keep their interference deniable enough that voters conclude they just need to vote harder next time.
Christopher Armitage, a legal scholar and journalist, built a test of eight questions, each one asking whether an office still holds the power the voters gave it. He puts the questions to Russia, Belarus, Venezuela and Turkey, follows Hungary until voters removed Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in April 2026, and then asks them of the United States, one institution at a time.
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