Tracing the Political: Depoliticisation, Governance and the State

ISBN-13: 9781447326601 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 252 str.

Matthew Flinders; Matt Wood

Opis

Over the past few decades, governments in many nations have increasingly delegated political decisions to expert agencies, portraying the issues they deal with--such as drug policy or monetary policy--as technocratic or managerial in nature. This has had the effect of essentially removing a large number of important political decisions from public debate--a situation that has led many commentators to worry about a -crisis of democracy, - or, even worse, the -end of politics.- This book offers a nuanced perspective on that situation, charting the dynamics of politicization and depoliticization that shape debates about governance, participation, and the liberal democratic state.

Spis treści

Introduction ~ Matthew Flinders and Matt Wood; Rethinking depoliticisation: beyond the governmental ~ Matthew Flinders and Matthew Wood; Depoliticisation, governance and political participation ~ Paul Fawcett and David Marsh; Depoliticisation: economic crisis and political management ~ Peter Burnham; Repoliticising depoliticisation: theoretical preliminaries on some responses to the American fiscal and Eurozone debt crises ~ Bob Jessop; Rolling back to roll forward: depoliticisation and the extension of government ~ Emma Ann foster, Peter Kerr and Christopher Byrne; (De)politicisation and the Father's Clause parliamentary debates ~ Stephen Bates, Laura Jenkins and Fran Amery; Politicising UK energy: what 'speaking energy security' can do ~ Caroline Kuzemko; Global norms, local contestation: privatisation and de/politicisation in Berlin ~ Ross Beveridge and Matthias Naumann; Depoliticisation as process, governance as practice: what did the 'first wave' get wrong and do we need a 'second wave' to put it right? ~ Colin Hay; Conclusion ~ Matthew Flinders and Matt Wood.