The first title in a new series of short, accessible books on the politics of the world's most intriguing countries.The Inside World Politics series fills a gap for accurate, enlightening, intelligent analysis - avoiding both the subjectivity of journalistic accounts and the nuts-and-bolts coverage of textbooks.
In recent years the concept and study of civil societyA" has received a lot of attention from political scientists, economists, and sociologists, but less so from anthropologists. A ground-breaking ethnographic approach to civil society as it is formed in indigenous communities in Latin America...
Britain is dominated by an oligarchy of professional egalitarians. Their aim is not to raise popular aspirations but to exploit mass taste, mass gullibility, or mass spending power for their own advantage. The author shows their populism is in fact 'a perversion of democracy, the sickness of the age'.
