The Power of Opinion and Weakness of Democracy
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Posted 05.10.2012
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UK Politics
We are currently living through an apparent contradiction. On the face of it public opinion has never been stronger. Information moves at a startling pace, interacting with and increasingly being defined by the users who consume it. Yet at the same time we have rarely seen, since the collapse of communism, European democracy as weak as it is now. How to explain this?
