Description
Politicswasonceatermwithanarrayofbroadlypositiveconnotations,associatedwithpublicscrutiny,deliberationandaccountability.Yettodayitisanincreasinglydirtyword,typicallysynonymouswithduplicity,corruption,inefficiencyandundueinterferenceinmattersbothpublicandprivate.HowhasthiscometopassWhydowehatepoliticsandpoliticianssomuchHowpervasiveisthecontemporaryconditionofpoliticaldisaffectionAndwhatispoliticsanywayInthislivelyandoriginalwork,ColinHayprovidesaseriesofinnovativeandprovocativeanswerstothesequestions.Hebeginsbytracingtheoriginsanddevelopmentofthecurrentclimateofpoliticaldisenchantmentacrossabroadrangeofestablisheddemocracies.Farfromrevealingarisingtideofapathy,however,heshowsthatasignificantproportionofthosewhohavewithdrawnfromformalpoliticsareengagedinothermodesofpoliticalactivity.Hegoesontodevelopanddefendabroadandinclusiveconceptionofpoliticsandthepoliticalthatisfarlessformal,lessstate-centricandlessnarrowlygovernmentalthaninmostconventionalaccounts.Bydemonstratinghowourexpectationsofpoliticsandthepoliticalrealitieswewitnessareshapeddecisivelybytheassumptionsabouthumannaturethatweprojectontopoliticalactors,Hayprovidesapowerfulandhighlydistinctiveaccountofcontemporarypoliticaldisenchantment.AAWhyWeHatePoliticsAAwillbeessentialreadingforallthosetroubledbythecontemporarypoliticalconditionoftheestablisheddemocracies.
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Released: Thu 15 Mar 2007
Catalogue Number: 0006578617

- Publisher: Blackwell Pub
- Academic Level: Scholarly/Graduate
- Depth (m): 0.013
- Dewey: 320
- Edition: 1
- Height (m): 0.222
- Pages: 187
- Place Of Publication: Great Britain/British Isles
- Published Date: Thu 15 Mar 2007
- Weight (g): 295
- Width (m): 0.152
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