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Defending Politics: Why Democracy Matters in the 21st Century
Matthew Flinders
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Description for Defending Politics: Why Democracy Matters in the 21st Century
Paperback. A forceful riposte to the sceptical and the disillusioned, this is a compelling account of why democratic politics matters, why it works far better than we are prepared to admit - and how we underestimate its achievements at our peril. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 3JMG; JPF; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 274.
If the twentieth century witnessed the triumph of democracy then something appears to have gone seriously wrong in the twenty-first. Citizens around the world have become distrustful of politicians, sceptical about democratic institutions, and disillusioned about the capacity of democratic politics to resolve pressing social concerns. Defending Politics meets this contemporary pessimism about the political process head on. Matthew Flinders makes a highly unfashionable but profoundly important argument of almost primitive simplicity: democratic politics delivers far more than most members of the public appear to acknowledge and understand. If more and more people are disappointed with what modern ... Read more
If the twentieth century witnessed the triumph of democracy then something appears to have gone seriously wrong in the twenty-first. Citizens around the world have become distrustful of politicians, sceptical about democratic institutions, and disillusioned about the capacity of democratic politics to resolve pressing social concerns. Defending Politics meets this contemporary pessimism about the political process head on. Matthew Flinders makes a highly unfashionable but profoundly important argument of almost primitive simplicity: democratic politics delivers far more than most members of the public appear to acknowledge and understand. If more and more people are disappointed with what modern ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
274g
Number of Pages
222
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199669042
SKU
V9780199669042
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About Matthew Flinders
Matthew Flinders is Professor of Parliamentary Government & Governance at the University of Sheffield. His book Delegated Governance and the British State (Oxford University Press, 2008) was awarded the W.J.M. Mackenzie Prize 2009 for the best book in political science published that year. Since then he has acted as an advisor to the Government of Thailand on behalf of the ... Read more
Reviews for Defending Politics: Why Democracy Matters in the 21st Century
A timely reflection on the challenges faced by democratic politics.
Birgit Schippers, London School of Economics Review of Books
This is a brave effort. It is lucid, learned and ... jargon-free. Above all, Flinders' message is one that cannot be too often restated.
New Statesman
Birgit Schippers, London School of Economics Review of Books
This is a brave effort. It is lucid, learned and ... jargon-free. Above all, Flinders' message is one that cannot be too often restated.
New Statesman