POLSCI 2F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Colin Crouch, Inedia, Soft Media
10 Sep 2014
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Can we have a mandate to provide a basis for judgment on performance. While elections certainly exist and can change gov"ts, public electoral debate is a tightly controlled spectacle, managed by rival teams of persuasion". ; not a great deal of variation, more like one thought". ; less freedom for gov"t to engage in gov"t spending; our need to retain private investment to ensure health of communities windsor and chyrsler" state v. private business* especially with social policies. ; decisions are moved away from pol competiton: political space/depoliticization social change (undermining traditional forms of parties, disintegration of class cohesion like cubicals and on contracts and don"t build a common identity that would translate into politics. ; people aren"t really working in big plants; more: secularization, seeking meaning elsewhere. ; church eliminate from state; people don"t associate themselves as catholic or having the need for a catholic oriented political party.
