Political Enthusiasm - Partisan Feeling and Democracys Enchantments

This book traces the changing ways enthusiasm has been understood politically, exploring how political actors use enthusiasm to motivate allegiances, how we have come to think on the dangers of enthusiasm in democratic politics, and how else we might think about enthusiasm today.

About the author

Andrew Poe is Associate Professor and teaches social and political thought at the Australian Catholic University, North Sydney

Summary

This book traces the changing ways enthusiasm has been understood politically, exploring how political actors use enthusiasm to motivate allegiances, how we have come to think on the dangers of enthusiasm in democratic politics, and how else we might think about enthusiasm today. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Poe
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781526156914
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-5691-4
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, Political structures: democracy, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies, Political structures / systems: democracy