It's a false democracy, she thinks, a veneer behind which powerful groups can slip in and assume power.
So many of the world's most powerful groups benefit that no one in power remotely wants a transparent system.
It continues, however, to be opposed by some powerful groups.
All over the world, the freedom to write about powerful groups is being smothered.
Unlike the poor, powerful groups can mobilise to bring the government to heel.
"It's very courageous, because he's taken on some very politically powerful groups.
This hard-edged approach, she said, makes him a target of the powerful groups he offends.
Even Wikipedia, the icon of democratisation, is open to abuse by powerful groups and individuals.
Other powerful groups that have governed, the military and wealthy industrialists, fared no better.
Defiance of such powerful groups paved the way for the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767.
But powerful groups representing superintendents, principals, teachers and school boards said they were delighted.
