ENG ELC 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Instrumentalism, Actor, Wicked Problem
14 Oct 2020
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Essential for debates coming to consensus and conclusion for country. Politics has become too buerocratic we need to retrieve the idea of a citizen legislator. Demand side, people are not interested enough in politics therefore don"t have the connection with leaders. Young people have never struggled so don"t appreciate the benefit of democracy. Philosophically embedded cynicism to authoritive hierarchy in egalitarian democracy. Politicians have authority and therefore, power to make decisions either through core executive with principle agent problem or through differentiated polity model. Representation heterogenous wide range of views and fragmentation of society. Politicians have to advocate policies made by policy experts or expert citizens" to public. Less inclined to demonise if we understood the benefits of this role. Poltics = performance the art of rhetoric and persuasion. Constructing the truth, important function of playing the part. No easy solution to deceitful and dissembling" politicians because we require them to act out competing performances and where masks.
