Colin Crouch, FBA (born 1944 in Isleworth) is an English sociologist and political scientist. He coined the post-democracy concept in 2000 in his book Coping with Post-Democracy. Colin Crouch is currently Emeritus Professor at the University of Warwick.
Under the conditions of a post-democracy that increasingly cedes power to business lobbies, there is little hope for an agenda of strong egalitarian policies for the redistribution of power and wealth, or for the restraint of powerful interests.
Egalitarians cannot reverse the arrival of post-democracy, but we must learn to cope with it -softening, amending, sometimes challenging it- rather than simply accepting it.