Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 March 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Context Phase
Dr. Julien Mercille:
Elections are a very superficial form of democracy because one votes only once every four years for two parties which are essentially the same. It is a very limited form of democracy. There are other forms of democracy where one can have more of a say in economic terms and political decision-making. This is drastically different and has nothing to do with electoral democracy.