We are in the hot campaign phase and books political commentators , which critiques the lack of democracy sprout like weeds from the soil. This is where the SWR chief reporter Thomas Leif a great contribution.
Why are the attempts to implement existing reform , always so timid? Where is the politically talented? These questions Leif on the ground and also explores the destruction of legitimacy of decisions by shifting to external advisory committees.
The origin planned title for the book, cliques and Calqueure, would indeed be lurid, but have been quite appropriate. Leif used impressive insider reports, interviews and secret strategy papers and explained through case studies that we are directly to a "post-democracy " position. This term was introduced by Colin Crouch, describing a policy that is the only elected a token change of government are carried out.
But our policy degenerates into a spectacle - the duration campaigns are carried out by competing teams of professional public relations experts . Public appeal and populist is against the backdrop of struggling with problems, while the real politics behind the curtains between governments and elites takes , mainly the interests of the economy represented .
"The party oligarchs want customized, convenient yes-men that are as smooth as a piece of soap. In order to breed the dangerous policy contempt "(Thomas Leif)
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