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Citizenship is now a key battleground in the fight over the direction of personal and political morality, domestic and global policy, social justice and the spread of violence across the world. Market Citizenship: Experiments in Democracy and Globalization offers a compelling account of the past and future of citizenship. Drawing on a rich fund of empirical material, author Amanda Root analyzes a new paradigm of social relations: market citizenship.
Politics and Kitsch
Politics and Kitsch
Introduction
Politics, judged by the number voting in many Western countries, has become increasingly less popular in recent years. Party membership is falling. Politicians are held in low public esteem, and alongside estate agents, they are regarded as generally untrustworthy. The sociologist and systems theory analyst Niklas Luhmann suggested that it was necessary to have binary systems in societies, as opposition is needed to keep social systems functioning (Luhmann, 1990, p. 232). In many political systems, one or more political parties would normally be assumed to be supporting the interests of the wealthy and one or more interests of the underprivileged (ibid.). In certain versions of politics, there are Capitalists’ and there are ‘the people’, a binary set, where a working ...
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