[P2P-F] Fwd: "Post-Democracy" - book - Colin Crouch

[Michel Bauwens]

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Date: Mon, May 2, 2011 at 8:50 PM
Subject: "Post-Democracy" - book - Colin Crouch
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-democracy


It is a polemic term because it calls attention to recognised democracies
that are losing some of their foundations evolving toward an
Aristocratic<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristocracy_%28government%29>
 regime.

A *Post-democracy* may be characterised with:

   - non representative elections <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election>
   - citizen rights<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_and_political_rights>
are
   not respected by the state, or its representatives
   - or, impossibility to get balanced
debates<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate>

Hereby, while thus contradicting
pluralist<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluralism_%28political_philosophy%29>
assumptions,
it seems to be an accepted presumption, that the common good were something
to be determined objectively and that conflicts of interest were not to be
handled within democratic processes but instead within administrative
proceedings.


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http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=0745633153


*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.




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