Colin Crouch

Colin Crouch earns my admiration for naming something the rest of us only half-felt. His 2000 concept of post-democracy, elections intact while real power drains to a narrow elite, reads sharper every year. As Emeritus Professor at Warwick and a Fellow of the British Academy, he could have stayed safely abstract, but the best scholars diagnose the disease and give it a word we cannot unhear. I value thinkers who turn unease into vocabulary. Crouch did that, and it is why his name still surfaces whenever democracy looks hollow.

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Name (English)

Colin Crouch

Name (Japanese)

コリン・クラウチ

Reading

こりん・くらうち

Born

March 1, 1944 (age 82)

Origin

Isleworth, United Kingdom

Occupation

sociologist / political scientist / university teacher / historian

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Monkey

University

Nuffield College

Awards & achievements

• 2005 Fellow of the British Academy

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin%20Crouch
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B3%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A6%E3%83%81
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q45424

Tags

• sociologist
• political scientist
• university teacher

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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