In a blog for Public Policy Network, Will Jennings and Gerry Stoker have argued that the rise of anti-politics in the present is not just a symptom of a political failure on economics, but citizens’ sense of being failed by a political class that lacks the competence and strength of character to follow the right policy options and, above all, is regarded as too short-termist, media-obsessed and in cahoots with the rich and powerful to provide leadership in the public interest.
Contemporary concern with anti-politics | Citizens may have never been enchanted with politics, but change and decline in public attitudes are observable.
Anti-politics: It’s not the economy, stupid; it’s you
November 20, 2014
Contemporary concern with anti-politics | Citizens may have never been enchanted with politics, but change and decline in public attitudes are observable.