Warring Fictions - Left Populism and its Defining Myths

Combative but constructive, Warring Fictions makes the case for pluralism and questions the premise of Corbynism.

List of contents

1. Left Populism and Left Pluralism
2. What Do We Want?
3. Distorting Myths
Myth One: The Dark Knight
4. What is the Dark Knight?
5. The Appeal of the Dark Knight
6. The Case Against the Dark Knight (People)
7. The Case Against the Dark Knight (Policy)
Myth Two: The Puppert Master
8. What is the Puppert Master?
9. The Appeal of the Puppert Master
10. The Case Against the Puppet Master (government)
11. The Case Against the Puppet Master (society)
Myth Three: The Golden Era
12. What is the Golden Era?
13. The Appeal of the Golden Era
14. The Case Against the Golden Era (global economy)
15. The Case Against the Golden Era (politics)
16. The Case Against the Golden Era (psychology)
Conclusion

About the author

Christopher Clarke is a communications expert in local government. He specialises in cohesion, and in building bridges between values groups.

Previous roles and experiences:
¿ Labour press officer in South Thanet for the 2015 election, and previously to a Labour
MEP
¿ Leadership bids of David Miliband, Liz Kendall and Angela Eagle
¿ Contributing to reports by the Labour Cruddas Review, the TUC, and values polling to
understand the 2017 election
¿ Organiser in Virginia for the 2012 Obama campaign
¿ Designing segmentation on migration attitudes
¿ Presenting on values and cohesion to the London Riots Panel, MHCLG, the LGA and the
Constituency Labour Party
¿ Monitoring online extremism, writing a guide for local councils on building trust,
developing narratives to tackle the far right in Greenwich
¿ Extensive opinion research in communities across the UK

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Clarke, Clarke Christopher
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.10.2019
• EAN: 9781786612915
• ISBN: 978-1-78661-291-5
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 210 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 358 g
• Illustrations: 23 Charts, 12 Tables
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Europe, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Politics & government, Politics and government, Political campaigning & advertising, Political campaigning and advertising, International institutions, Elections & referenda, EU & European institutions, Elections and referenda / suffrage