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The Big Society and the Conjunction of Crises: Justifying Welfare Reform and Undermining Social Housing [PDF]
The idea of the “Big Society” can be seen as culmination of a long-standing debate about the regulation of welfare. Situating the concept within governance theory, the article considers how the UK coalition government has justified a radical ...
Atkinson R. +52 more
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Antinomies of „truth and reconciliation“: Post-Yugoslav cases [PDF]
The paper offers a critical evaluation of the theoretical propositions and practical uses of the concept of “truth and reconciliation” (T&R), with special regard to the post-Yugoslav case studies. Firstly, the paper indicates an antinomy situated
Karamanić Slobodan
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Neo-liberalism, Crisis and the Contradictions of Depoliticisation
This paper develops a political economy analysis of depoliticisation in the context of the crisis of neo-liberalism in Western Europe. Following a discussion of the theoretical foundations of the concept, it emphases that whilst depoliticisation ...
Peter Burnham
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The People Against Europe: The Eurosceptic Challenge to the United Kingdom's Coalition Government [PDF]
This article approaches Euroscepticism as central to a contemporary dynamic of government and opposition. Populist Eurosceptic mobilizations exemplify opposition to depoliticized forms of political rule and demonstrate the tight political coupling of the
Albertazzi +31 more
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Financial Power and Democratic Legitimacy [PDF]
To what extent are questions of sovereign debt a matter for political rather than scientific or moral adjudication? We answer that question by defending three claims. We argue that (i) moral and technocratic takes on sovereign debt tend to be ideological
Prinz, Janosch, Rossi, Enzo
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The Labour Government, the Treasury and the £6 pay policy of July 1975 [PDF]
The 1974-79 Labour Government was elected in a climate of opinion that was fiercely opposed to government intervention in the wage determination process, and was committed to the principles of free collective bargaining in its manifestoes.
B Donoughue +13 more
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The changing patterns of group politics in Britain [PDF]
Two interpretations of ways in which group politics in Britain have presented challenges to democracy are reviewed: neo-corporatism or pluralistic stagnation and the rise of single issue interest groups.
A Giddens +40 more
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This study explores the evolution of the global governance of refugees in light of studies on depoliticisation. Following theories on governmentality, it emphasizes the centrality of the concept of de-politicisation when examining the narratives and ...
Mariafrancesca D'Agostino
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This article investigates politicisation and depoliticisation in post-war Dutch democracy by analysing debates in the Dutch House of Representatives between 1945 and 1994.
Ruben Ros
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Paradoxes of Democracy and Depoliticisation in the Social Peripheries of Modernity
At the end of the 20th Century, the global diffusion of economic neoliberalism represents, seen from diverse perspectives, the outcome of a communicative overlapping between the economic system and the political system.
Gianpasquale Preite
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