In Defence of Politics (Continuum Impacts) - Softcover

Crick, Bernard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826487513 ISBN 13: 9780826487513

Verlag: Continuum, 2005

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Crick asserts that politics, with its compromises and power struggles, remains the only tested alternative to government by coercion, making both freedom and order possible in heterogeneous societies. For Crick, politics is necessarily imperfect, messy and complex, yet his book defends it against those 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 public debate 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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Sir Bernard Crick was Emeritus Professor of Politics, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, and Honorary Fellow in Politics at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He was chairman of the advisory group on The Teaching of Citizenship and Democracy in Schools and was presented with the Political Studies Association's Fiftieth Anniversary Award for lifetime achievement in political studies in 2000.

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• Verlag: Continuum
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0826487513
• ISBN 13: 9780826487513
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 262
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