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Colin Crouch

コリン・クラウチ　/　こりん・くらうち

Sociologist from United Kingdom

March 1, 1944 (age 82)　・　Isleworth, United Kingdom

sociologist
political scientist
university teacher

My Take

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.

Overview

Colin John Crouch, (born 1 March 1944) 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 and an External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.

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1. Profile

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)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Pisces / Monkey
Origin: Isleworth, United Kingdom
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: sociologist / political scientist / university teacher / historian

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Nuffield College

Awards & achievements

2005 Fellow of the British Academy

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

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6. Links

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

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