Totalitarian democracy
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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]