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|title=In the Name of the People: Pseudo-Democracy and the Spoiling of Our World

|author=Ivo Mosley

|publisher=Imprint Academic

|date=February 2013

|summary=Mosley's criticism of the predominant political system of elective oligarchy. In ''In the Name of the People'', he traces the events leading to its wrongful appropriation of the name ''democracy'', and explains just why it was wrong in doing so.

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On the spectrum ranging between democracy and totalitarianism, Ivo Mosley upholds that the system of elective oligarchy lies closer to the latter. And yet, he essentially says, Western democracy as we know it today is ''nothing'' but this form of representative government, excluding a large proportion of the people whose freedoms it claims to protect.