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  • Stoic Democrats? Anti-politics, élite cynicism and the policy process

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    Boswell, John
    Corbett, Jack
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    Corbett, Jack
    Year published
    2015
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    Abstract
    Disenchantment with politics appears to be proliferating throughout contemporary liberal democracies, as outlined in the growing literature on anti-politics. Overwhelmingly, this literature has focused on the disaffection citizens express towards the policy process. Here, using policy-making on the issue of obesity in Australia and Britain as a case study, we show that disenchantment is not limited to citizen outsiders; the élite policy actors at the core of the process are cynical, too. Indeed, we unveil an élite cast of ‘stoic democrats’ who see little reward for their continual efforts. We also point to the limits of ...
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    Disenchantment with politics appears to be proliferating throughout contemporary liberal democracies, as outlined in the growing literature on anti-politics. Overwhelmingly, this literature has focused on the disaffection citizens express towards the policy process. Here, using policy-making on the issue of obesity in Australia and Britain as a case study, we show that disenchantment is not limited to citizen outsiders; the élite policy actors at the core of the process are cynical, too. Indeed, we unveil an élite cast of ‘stoic democrats’ who see little reward for their continual efforts. We also point to the limits of stoicism highlighted by this ‘extreme’ case, as some élites begin to challenge the legitimacy of formal policy processes, subvert their norms, or ignore them altogether, all in search of more direct impact. We conclude that the literature on anti-politics would benefit from paying greater attention to the potential challenge élite cynicism presents to democratic governance.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of European Public Policy
    Volume
    22
    Issue
    10
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2015.1010561
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    © 2015 Taylor & Francis (Routledge). This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of European Public Policy on 23 Feb 2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13501763.2015.1010561
    Subject
    Policy and administration
    Political science
    Political theory and political philosophy
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/101446
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