Electionless

Although the establishment is nominally in favor of elections, a continuation of an electionless status quo would suit much of it just fine.

There is a slew of treaties, organizations and agencies that form the scaffolding of the emerging global governance structure regulating and superintending everything from nuclear weapons to the fishing of halibut, and all of them embody electionless intergovernmentalism.

This electionless system ensures that there is no elected opposition with the power to hold the governing faction to account.