Post Democracy - Couverture souple

Crouch, Colin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0745633153 ISBN 13 : 9780745633152

Editeur : Polity Press, 2004

Synopsis

Post-Democracy is a polemical work that goes beyond current complaints about the failings of our democracy and explores the deeper social and economic forces that account for the current malaise.





Colin Crouch argues that the decline of those social classes which had made possible an active and critical mass politics has combined with the rise of global capitalism to produce a self-referential political class more concerned with forging links with wealthy business interests than with pursuing political programmes which meet the concerns of ordinary people. He shows how, in some respects, politics at the dawn of the twenty-first century returns us to a world familiar well before the start of the twentieth, when politics was a game played among elites. However, Crouch maintains that the experience of the twentieth century remains salient and it reminds us of possibilities for the revival of politics.


This engaging book will prove challenging to all those who claim that advanced societies have reached a virtual best of all possible democratic worlds, and will be compelling reading for anyone interested in the shape of twenty-first-century politics.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Colin Crouch is Professor Emeritus of the University of Warwick, and the External Scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies at Cologne.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Polity Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0745633153
• ISBN 13: 9780745633152
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible