- Hardcover: 144 pages
- Publisher: Polity Press (24 Jun 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0745633145
- ISBN-13: 978-0745633145
- Product Dimensions: 19.7 x 13.9 x 1.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,826,311 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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‘Colin Crouch has written a powerful plea for a politics of the left in the twenty–first century. He is no advocate of the Third Way. For him the stark alternative is liberal democracy or egalitarian democracy, and he clearly opts for the latter. Those who disagree with his analysis or his conclusions will have to make their case, and will no doubt do so. Crouch’s book is sure to give rise to lively debate.’ Ralf Dahrendorf
′Colin Crouch has the great gift of bringing theory down to accessible earth. Social capital theory is applied to the policies needed for civil renewal. This thoughtful book is a culmination of all that we have been expecting–and more–from his Fabian pamphlets and Political Quarterly articles on the dilemmas of democracy in troubled times.′ Professor Bernard Crick
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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 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.
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.
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A short, brilliant and original polemic about our times, our politics and our society!
Bascially Crouch argues that we are witnessing a shift towards post-democracy where the political, corporate and media elites are colluding in creating a new establishment which replaces the old one and has marginalised the conventional democratic structures such as Parliament and political parties.
Crouch underlines that we are in uncharted waters and that politics and power are changing as a new elite attempts to browbeat the rest of us into accepting their worldview: that their is no alternative to globalisation and the market, that competition and free trade are best, etc. The first step in opposing this agenda is in understanding its implications and Crouch does this in a superb way. A must read book.
Bascially Crouch argues that we are witnessing a shift towards post-democracy where the political, corporate and media elites are colluding in creating a new establishment which replaces the old one and has marginalised the conventional democratic structures such as Parliament and political parties.
Crouch underlines that we are in uncharted waters and that politics and power are changing as a new elite attempts to browbeat the rest of us into accepting their worldview: that their is no alternative to globalisation and the market, that competition and free trade are best, etc. The first step in opposing this agenda is in understanding its implications and Crouch does this in a superb way. A must read book.
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