"proceduralism" redirects here. For the ideology favoring"producers", seeProducerism.
Procedural democracy orproceduralist democracy,proceduralism orhollow democracy[1] is a term used to denote the particular procedures, such as regularelections based onuniversal suffrage, that produce an electorally-legitimated government.[2][3][4] Procedural democracy, with its centering of electoral processes as the basis of democratic legitimacy, is often contrasted withsubstantive or participatory democracy, which centers the equal participation of all groups in society in the political process as the basis of legitimacy.[3][5]
The term is often used to denote an artificial appearance ofdemocracy through the existence of democratic procedures like elections when in reality power is held by a small group of elites who manipulate democratic processes to make themselves appear democratically legitimate.[2][6]
