Why Americans Hate Politics: A Reprise

Dionne, E. J.

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“…Thus for politicians, especially federal politicians, seeking to fill the rather large role in public life that the federal government has staked out for itself in the late twentieth century, there is a limited range of governmental strategies available. State governments enjoy somewhat higher esteem, but they too are limited in their ability to mount new social programs in the face of a public that regards such efforts as likely to be wasteful and counterproductive (Dionne 1991).…”

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confidence: 99%

Understanding Prison Policy and Population Trends

Caplow

Simon²

1999

Crime and Justice

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Understanding Prison Policy and Population Trends

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1999

Crime and Justice

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“…Un des éléments de langage de cette vague populiste fut le « sens commun » que citoyens et politiques adoptèrent comme s'il se fût agi du Saint Graal de la crise de la légitimité, la panacée censée ramener les responsables politiques et les technocrates, tous aussi ingérables les uns que les autres, sur la voie de la raison, de la transparence et de l'efficacité (Dionne, 1991 ;Lipset, Schneider, 1987 ;Pharr, Putnam, 2000). Le vice-président Al Gore (1995) The New York Times, 1995 ;Klein, 1995).…”

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Parole d’experts, public profane : les mutations du discours politique à la télévision

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2013

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“…This would be a language of human good that would serve as an arena "in which citizens can learn from each other and discover an 'enlightened self-interest' in common" (Dionne 1991).…”

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“…But as time passed, both in Canada and in the United States, the fixation on "have-nots" and the underclass (almost exclusively) and futile attempts to rescue people from poverty have led politics to abandon the working middle class. This explains why they hate politics: politics has abandoned them (Dionne 1991). Families have worked harder, and yet they are losing ground.…”

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Governance Through Social Learning

Paquet¹

1999

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Governance is about guiding: it is the process whereby an organization steers itself. Studying governance means probing the distribution of rights, obligations, and power that underpins organizations and social systems; understanding how they co-ordinate their parallel activities and maintain their coherence; exploring the sources of dysfunction and lacklustre performance; and suggesting ways to redesign organizations whose governance is in need of repair. Governance also has to do with the complex ways in which the private, public, and civic sectors co-ordinate their activities, with the manner in which citizens produce governance through their active participation in a democratic society, and with the instruments and processes required to ensure good and effective stewardship.This series welcomes a range of contributions -from conceptual and theoretical reflections, ethnographic and case studies, and proceedings of conferences and symposia to works of a very practical nature -that deal with particular problems or nexus of issues on the governance front. DirectorGilles Paquet Over the past 10 years, I have worked on the problems raised by the governing, the governance, and the governability of complex organizations and socio-economic-political systems. This terrain has been explored by many researchers. Indeed, over the last 10 years, these themes have become the centre of important debates on every continent (Kumon 1992; Kooiman 1993;Castells 1996). However, governance studies are still in their infancy. Although many interesting approaches and perspectives have been proposed, there is still no consensus on the best way to handle these issues, nor is there agreement on a lexicon or vocabulary for formulating these questions. Editorial CommitteeThis compendium of papers is a progress report on work that strives to generate new responses to these problems. These studies are unified by the choice of a particular strategy for dealing with governance problems. It is not intended to be le dernier mot on these matters, but only a premier effort to clarify the issues, using a method that has proved useful -the social learning approach. CHANCE EVENTS AND INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORTThe research program on which this volume is based originated in 1988-89 during a sabbatical leave from the University of Ottawa, but the original plans evolved as a consequence of many chance events and help from friends and colleagues at certain junctures. GOVERNANCE THROUGH SOCIAL LEARNINGAt the time, the Institute was very much a forum interested in exploratory thinking. My work there was entirely curiosity-oriented, but I had an opportunity to discuss the results of my first analyses with Peter Dobell, Rod Dobell, Jeffrey Holmes, Steven Rosell, and Walter Stewart. Each of these colleagues forced different perspectives on these issues of governance on me, and they all had an impact on the reflections that stemmed from my sojourn at the Institute.The second chance event was David Zussman's invitation to present a paper on these issues at the A...

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Why Americans Hate Politics: A Reprise

Cited by 55 publications

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Understanding Prison Policy and Population Trends

Understanding Prison Policy and Population Trends

Parole d’experts, public profane : les mutations du discours politique à la télévision

Governance Through Social Learning

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