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There is a mounting body of evidence pointing towards rising levels of public dissatisfaction with the formal political process. Depoliticization refers to a more discrete range of contemporary strategies that add to this growing trend towards anti-politics by either removing or displacing the potential for choice, collective agency, and deliberation.
This book examines the relationship between these two trends as understood within the broader shift towards governance. It brings together a number of contributions from scholars who have a varied range of concerns but who nevertheless share a common interest in developing the concept of depoliticization through their engagement with a set of theoretical, conceptual, methodological, and empirical questions. This volume explores these questions from a variety of different perspectives and uses a
number of different empirical examples and case studies from both within the nation state as well as from other regional, global, and multi-level arenas.
In this context, this volume examines the potential and limits of depoliticization as a concept and its position and contribution in the nexus between the larger and more established literatures on governance and anti-politics.
List of contents
- Section I: Theoretical Innovation
- 1: Paul Fawcett, Matthew Flinders, Colin Hay, and Matthew Wood: Anti-politics, Depoliticization, and Governance
- 2: Eva Sørensen and Jacob Torfing: The Janus Face of Governance Theory: Depoliticizing or Repoliticizing Public Governance?
- 3: Claudia Landwehr: Depoliticization, Repoliticization, and Deliberative Systems
- 4: Rousiley C. M. Maia: Politicization, New Media, and Everyday Deliberation
- Section II: Conceptual and Methodological Development
- 5: Diane Stone: Global Governance Depoliticized: Knowledge Networks, Scientization, and Anti-Policy
- 6: Kelly Gerard: ASEAN, Anti-politics, and Human Rights
- 7: Yannis Papadopoulos: Multilevel Governance and Depoliticization
- Section III: New Empirical Horizons
- 8: Holly Snaith: Depoliticization as a Coordination Problem: Functional Change in a System of Multilevel Economic Governance
- 9: Steven Griggs, David Howarth, and Eleanor MacKillop: The Meta-Governance of Austerity, Localism, and Practices of Depoliticization
- 10: Paul Fawcett and Matthew Wood: Depoliticization, Meta-Governance, and Coal Seam Gas Regulation in New South Wales
- Section IV: Discussion and Debate
- 11: Craig Berry and Scott Lavery: Towards a Political Economy of Depoliticization Strategies: Help to Buy, the Office for Budget Responsibility, and the UK Growth Model
- 12: Gerry Stoker: Embracing the Mixed Nature of Politics
- 13: Paul Fawcett, Matthew Flinders, Colin Hay, and Matthew Wood: A Renewed Agenda for Studying Anti-Politics, Depoliticization, and Governance
About the author
Matthew Flinders is Reader in Parliamentary Government and Governance at the University of Sheffield. He was awarded the Harrison Prize in 2002, the Richard Rose Prize in 2004, and during 2005-2006 he held a Whitehall Fellowship within the Cabinet Office.
Matthew Wood wurde an der Scottish School of Herbal Medicine, University of Wales, Master of Science in Heilpflanzenkunde ausgebildet und ist Mitglied der American Herbalists Guild. Seit 1982 führt er eine Praxis für Heilpflanzenkunde und Homöopathie in Minnetrista, Minnesota, wo er bis heute Tausenden von Patienten mit Gesundheitsproblemen helfen konnte. Autor zahlreicher Bücher, die als Grundlagenwerke auf dem Gebiet der Heilpflanzenkunde gelten.
Summary
This volume redefines the research agenda for studying anti-politics and contemporary governance, and presents and examines new case-study material from a range of countries and policy areas.
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a key contribution to scholarship on depoliticisation that will influence future research.
