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The political class : why it matters who our politicians are /
Recent years have seen an intensification of discussion on the issue of Britain's political class. The question of who our politicians are is front and centre. Do they represent us? Are all politicians just in it for themselves? Are they disconnected from the lives of normal people? In 'Th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford, United Kingdom :
Oxford University Press,
2018.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The political class : |b why it matters who our politicians are / |c Peter Allen. |
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| 520 | 8 | |a Recent years have seen an intensification of discussion on the issue of Britain's political class. The question of who our politicians are is front and centre. Do they represent us? Are all politicians just in it for themselves? Are they disconnected from the lives of normal people? In 'The Political Class', Peter Allen argues that our current political class are in many important ways unlike the British people as a whole, and this matters a lot.0Our politicians are currently largely drawn from limited sections of society, reflecting patterns of wider social and economic inequality which mean that, for many people, running for political office is almost impossible. This leaves us with a political class that can justifiably be described as uniform in who they are, what they think, and how they behave.0Putting the state of British democracy under the microscope, Allen argues that having a more diverse political class would not only better reflect democratic principles of equality, but would also result in more legitimate political outcomes. We need to radically reshape political institutions so that more citizens have a real chance of becoming involved in making the decisions that affect all of our lives. Only by doing this can the gap between the political class and the public be reduced, and British democracy live up to its name. | |
| 588 | |a Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 17, 2018). | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; the POLITICAL CLASS: why it matters who our politicians are; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Introduction; The Problem of the Political Class; Democracy, Representation, Inclusion, and Equality; Diversity; A Summary of the Main Argument; Why You Should Care; 1: Who or What is the Political Class?; The Political-Class Narrative I: Personal Characteristics; The Political-Class Narrative II: Attitudes; The Political-Class Narrative III: Behaviour; Conclusion; 2: The Case for the Defence. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The Defence from Access-Why we Have to Pay our PoliticiansThe Defence from Good Intentions-Why the Media Generally Get Politicians Wrong; The Defence from Party Change; The Defence from Meritocracy; The Defence from Depoliticization; The Defence from 'a Conversation with the Average Voter'; Conclusion; 3: The Case for the Prosecution; The Intrinsic Case against the Political Class; The Case against the Political Class from Democratic Health; The Functionalist Case against the Political Class; The Case against the Political Class from Politics Itself. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The Instrumental Case against the Political ClassWhy We Might Resist an Instrumental Argument; Conclusion: Reframing the Political-Class Issue as One of (In)equality and Effectiveness; 4: How to Make the Political Class More Diverse; Supply and Demand in Political Recruitment; How Political Parties Could Make the Political Class More Diverse; A Defence of Quotas of All Kinds; Making Being a Politician More Compatible with Being a 'Normal Person'; The Limits of Social Intervention; Why Randomly Selecting our Representatives Might Solve the Problem of the Political Class. | |
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