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A political theory in practice: the reduction of democracy to elections alone, while ignoring everything else—participation, accountability, rule of law, civil society, economic justice. When elections become the sole measure of democracy, oligarchs can win cleanly and call themselves democratic, even as they dismantle the institutions that make democracy meaningful. Crony electoralism is the ideology that legitimizes crony democracy: as long as there is a vote, critics are told, the system is democratic, and any deeper critique is dismissed as anti-democratic.
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