Politics in the Age of Disintermediation
摘要
This concluding chapter examines the systemic and normative consequences of the “dual crisis” defined by the coexistence of structural variance and functional disintermediation. It argues that the resulting political landscape resembles a “zoo” of incompatible species, creating a “Governance Deficit” where parties function like “racing yachts”, optimized for electoral speed but structurally unequipped for the heavy friction of policy implementation. This structural hollowness leads to legislative volatility, a reliance on technocratic outsourcing to fill the void, and the paralysis of “asymmetric coalitions” where agile leader-centric vehicles clash with slow bureaucratic survivors. Normatively, the chapter posits that the shift from social integration to “broadcasting” has birthed an “audience democracy”, rendering the state blind to peripheral grievances and reducing citizens to passive spectators. Ultimately, it warns that the plebiscitary distortion of the curvilinear party does not represent a renewal of democracy, but a degeneration into “party anarchy”, arguing that the future of representative government depends on the capacity to reconstruct the intermediate structures sacrificed in the name of efficiency.