It's Confirmed! Totalitarian Democracy Alive and Well in Education.
We change the quote at the top of the MEW page from time to time and our current heading reads:
"Totalitarian democracy is a term made famous by Israeli historian J. L. Talmon to refer to a system of government in which lawfully elected representatives maintain the integrity of a nation state whose citizens, while granted the right to vote, have little or no participation in the decision-making process of the government."
We may have been on to something other than common sense understanding of what is happening in public
