Postdemocrazia

How do you make people turn away from politics in frustration and disgust? Please note that I put the original German text at the end of this review. Just if you might be interested. A good description of the development of the last decades and the methodology behind it including some future forecasts Leggi tutto

Colin Crouch's short and provocative work Post-democracy asks why and then suggests reasons for the departure of historic left-of-centre political parties across Europe from their traditional role of being political voices for those disadvantaged by unrestrained capitalism. His analysis is rooted in Leggi tutto

This book has several false assumptions underlying its thesis, one is that social movements today exist almost entirely outside of a postdemocratic framework. He completely ignores the literature on the nonprofit industrial complex for instance, and the large role of billionaire philanthropy. It was Leggi tutto

Ясное изложение, глубокие мысли, убедительная аргументация. Тот редкий случай, когда автору политико-экономического исследования удается одновременно ставить диагноз, предлагать идеальную модель, объяснять, почему она едва ли возможна, и прогнозировать реальное развитие событий. Ограничившись до сме Leggi tutto

Da hätten die ersteb 8 Seiten ausgereicht, danach kommt nur noch sozdem Müll

It is an interesting book, that makes one think a lot about current politics. It is a bit open ended, as I was expected that it would be a little more concrete at the end. No such luck, and that may be a design feature: it is asking for citizens to get involved in the polity and to get creative abou Leggi tutto

This book introduces the concept of post-democracy, with its various features, by recounting the parallel stories of the democratic society and the political left and highlighting the trends that determine the main social changes of our times. The key idea is that the traditional left started losing Leggi tutto