Why Politics Matters: Making Democracy Work

✍ Scribed by Gerry Stoker

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 247
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Achieving mass democracy was the great triumph of the last century. Learning to live with it will be the greatest achievement of this one. Stoker suggests that democracy must create a new politics, making it as easy as possible for as many people to participate. Winner of the Political Studies Association Book of the Year Prize 2006

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