Post-Democracy

Name: Post-Democracy
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ISBN: 9780745633152

ISBN-10: 0745633153

ISBN-13: 9780745633152

Edition: 2004

Authors: Colin. Crouch

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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…

Book details

List price: $20.75
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 8/13/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 5.40" wide x 7.50" long x 0.52" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



Preface



Why Post-Democracy?



The global firm: the key institution of the post-democratic world



Social class in post-democracy



The political party under post-democracy



Post-democracy and the commercialization of citizenship



Conclusions: Where do we go from here?


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