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Why Politics Fails
- Writer: Ben Ansell
- Category: English
- Pages: 316
- Stock: In Stock
- Model: STP-15622
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Why do the revolving doors of power always leave
us disappointed? In Why Politics Fails , award-winning Oxford professor
Ben Ansell shows that it's not the politicians that are the problem,
it's that our collective goals result in five political 'traps'. we all
want a say in how we're governed, but it's impossible to have any true
'will of the people'. we want to be treated equally, but equal rights
and equal outcomes undermine each other. we want a safety net when times
are tough, but often we care about solidarity only when we need it
ourselves. we want protecting from harm, but not if it undermines our
freedoms. we want to be richer tomorrow, but what makes us richer in the
short run makes us poorer over the long haul.You've probably noticed a
pattern here, which is that our self-interest undermines our ability to
deliver on our collective goals. And these traps reinforce one another,
so a polarized democracy can worsen inequality; a threadbare social
safety net can worsen crime; runaway climate change will threaten global
peace.Drawing on examples from Ancient Greece through Brexit and using
his own counterintuitive and pathbreaking research - on why democracy
thrives under high inequality, and how increased political and social
equality can lead to greater class inequality - Ansell vividly
illustrates how we can escape the political traps of our imperfect
world. He shows that politics won't end, but that it doesn't have to
fail.
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| Pages | 316 |
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