Must politics be war? : restoring our trust in the open society / Kevin Vallier.
2019
JK1726 .V35 2019
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Title
Must politics be war? : restoring our trust in the open society / Kevin Vallier.
Author
Vallier, Kevin, author.
ISBN
9780190632861 (electronic book)
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations.
Call Number
JK1726 .V35 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.2
Summary
Americans are far less likely to trust their institutions, and one another, than in decades past. This collapse in social and political trust arguably inspires our increasingly ferocious ideological conflicts and hardened partisanship. Many believe that our previously high levels of trust and bipartisanship were a pleasant anomaly and that today we live under the historic norm. For politics itself is nothing more than a struggle for power between groups with irreconcilable aims. Contemporary American politics is war because political life as such is war. This text argues that our shared liberal democratic institutions have the unique capacity to sustain social and political trust between diverse persons.
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Americans are far less likely to trust their institutions, and one another, than in decades past. This collapse in social and political trust arguably inspires our increasingly ferocious ideological conflicts and hardened partisanship. Many believe that our previously high levels of trust and bipartisanship were a pleasant anomaly and that today we live under the historic norm. For politics itself is nothing more than a struggle for power between groups with irreconcilable aims. Contemporary American politics is war because political life as such is war. This text argues that our shared liberal democratic institutions have the unique capacity to sustain social and political trust between diverse persons.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 8, 2019).
Series
Oxford scholarship online.
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Print version: 9780190632830
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