"Mair, an institutionalist to the end, mourned the passing of mass-party democracy...he could not fully see that the void would be filled not by a replacement institution but by a post-institutional form" www.theideasletter.org/essay/froth-...
Froth, Fury, and the Rise of the New RightLeonard revisits the political scientist Peter Mair’s influential concept of the democratic void: the widening gap between increasingly detached political elites and citizens who no longer participate...www.theideasletter.org