Why we hate politics

Colin Hay

Politics was once a term with an array of broadly positive connotations, associated with public scrutiny, deliberation and accountability. Yet today it is an increasingly dirty word, typically synonymous with duplicity, corruption, inefficiency and undue interference in matters both public and private. How has this come to pass? Why do we hate politics and politicians so much? How pervasive is the contemporary condition of political disaffection? And what is politics anyway? In this lively and original work, Colin Hay provides a series of innovative and provocative answers to these questions. He begins by tracing the origins and development of the current climate of political disenchantment across a broad range of established democracies. Far from revealing a rising tide of apathy, however, he shows that a significant proportion of those who have withdrawn from formal politics are engaged in other modes of political activity. He goes on to develop and defend a broad and inclusive conception of politics and the political that is far less formal, less state-centric and less narrowly governmental than in most conventional accounts. By demonstrating how our expectations of politics and the political realities we witness are shaped decisively by the assumptions about human nature that we project onto political actors, Hay provides a powerful and highly distinctive account of contemporary political disenchantment. Why We Hate Politics will be essential reading for all those troubled by the contemporary political condition of the established democracies.

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In this lively and original work, Colin Hay offers an innovative and provocative analysis of public disenchantment with modern politics. 'Why We Hate Politics' will be essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the contemporary political condition of established democracies.

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[目次]

  • * Preface and Acknowledgements * Chapter 1 Political Disenchantment * Chapter 2 Politics, Participation and Politicisation * Chapter 3 The Domestic Sources of Depoliticisation * Chapter 4 The Global Sources of Depoliticisation * Chapter 5 Conclusion: Why Do We Hate Politics? * Bibliography * Index

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[目次]

  • * Preface and Acknowledgements * Chapter 1 Political Disenchantment * Chapter 2 Politics, Participation and Politicisation * Chapter 3 The Domestic Sources of Depoliticisation * Chapter 4 The Global Sources of Depoliticisation * Chapter 5 Conclusion: Why Do We Hate Politics? * Bibliography * Index

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書名 Why we hate politics
著作者等 Hay, Colin
出版元 Polity
刊行年月 2007
ページ数 ix, 187 p.
大きさ 23 cm
ISBN 9780745630991
9780745630984
NCID BA8246381X
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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