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In defence of politics

By Bernard Crick

Book information

Publisher
Continuum International Publishing Group
Year
2005
ISBN
0826487513, 9780826487513
Open Library ID
OL8169375M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
309 kB (316922 bytes)
Pages
262\0
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

Crick asserts that politics, with its compromises and power struggles, remains the only tested alternative to government by coercion, making both freedoma nd order possible in heterogeneous societies. For Crick, politics is necessarily imperfect, messy anmd complex, yet his book defends it against htose who would identify it with (and reduce it to) ideology, nationalism, technology or populist democracy. In this fifth edition, Crick warns us that present-day politicians are in danger of threatening both citizenship and common humanity. He discusses the popular distrust for politicians in both the UK and USA, arguing that they have lowered the level of publicdebate for short-term gain; and he discusses how suchvshort-termism is preventing timely attempts to tackle despoliation of the global environment.>

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