Apologies for the very light posting here. Normal service will be resumed shortly – hopefully. In the meantime, can I direct you over to this post over at Left Foot Forward – well worth a read: “The election results show a total fragmentation of the political landscape. They produced, what we might call, a horrific [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Populism’
Are we a lynch-mob who won’t vote for a bunch of ‘hangers’?
Don Paskini has a post up here that I’d like to be able to agree with. I’m very comfortable with his logic but remain to be convinced about the details of his arguments. He’s picking up on the popularity of banker-bashing and placing it beside the short-term popularity that politicians believe that they get by [...]
Populist policing and speedy decisions
Apologies for the light posting this week. I’ve been in Northern Ireland where I met someone who was studying criminology. Her key concern was the question of local control of policing and populism: Would devolved policing result in a deterioration into populism. Northern Ireland is an interesting case in point, given the historic divides. Unionists, with [...]
Populism, participation and democracy
Over at the Democratic Society blog, Anthony has written a very good post on the balance between decisions that have a democratic flavour to them (in the crudest sense of the word – decisions that reflect the broad stated will of those who express a view) and the need for high-quality decisionmaking.