Tracing the Political : : Depoliticisation, Governance and the State / / ed. by Matt Flinders, Matt Wood.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Complete eBook-Package 2015
• MitwirkendeR: Amery, Fran,; Bates, Stephen,; Beveridge, Ross,; Burnham, Peter,; Byrne, Christopher,; Fawcett, Paul,; Flinders, Matthew,; Foster, Emma Ann,; Hay, Colin,; Jenkins, Laura,; Jessop, Bob,; Kerr, Peter,; Kuzemko, Caroline,; Marsh, David,; Naumann, Matthias,; Wood, Matt,
• HerausgeberIn: Flinders, Matt,; Wood, Matt,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: New Perspectives in Policy and Politics
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (252 p.)

Over the past two decades politicians have delegated many political decisions to expert agencies or ‘quangos’, and portrayed the associated issues, like monetary or drug policy, as technocratic or managerial. At the same time an increasing number of important political decisions are being removed from democratic public debate altogether, leading many commentators to argue that they are part of a ‘crisis of democracy’, marking the ‘end of politics’. Tracing the political uses a broad range of international case studies to chart the politicising and depoliticising dynamics that shape debates about the future of governance and the liberal democratic state. The book is part of the New perspectives in policy and politics series, and will be an important text for students of politics and policy, as well as researchers and policy makers.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Depoliticisation, governance and the state -- Rethinking depoliticisation: beyond the governmental -- Depoliticisation, governance and political participation -- Depoliticisation: economic crisis and political management -- Repoliticising depoliticisation: theoretical preliminaries on some responses to the American fiscal and Eurozone debt crises -- Rolling back to roll forward: depoliticisation and the extension of government -- (De)politicisation and the Father’s Clause parliamentary debates -- Politicising UK energy: what ‘speaking energy security’ can do -- Global norms, local contestation: privatisation and de/politicisation in Berlin -- Depoliticisation as process, governance as practice: what did the ‘first wave’ get wrong and do we need a ‘second wave’ to put it right? -- Thinking big: the political imagination -- Index