An interdisciplinary study providing first-hand evidence of the everyday lives of politicians; what politicians actually do on ’the backstage’ in political organizations. The book offers answers to the widely discussed phenomena of disenchantment with politics and depoliticization.
Inhoudsopgave
List of Figures, Tables and Photographs Preface ‘Doing Politics’ The (Ir)rationality of Politics ‘Politics as Usual’ on the ‘European Stage’: Constructing and performing ‘European Identities One Day in the Life of a MEP Everyday Politics in Television: Fiction and/or Reality? Order or Disorder: Fiction or Reality? The Implications of ‘Power and Knowledge Management’ on the Organization of ‘Politics as Usual’ Appendix Notes References Index
Over de auteur
RUTH WODAK, is Distinguished Professor of Discourse Studies at the Department of Linguistics, Lancaster University, UK. (and affiliated to the University of Vienna). Besides various other prizes, she was awarded the Wittgenstein Prize for Elite Researchers in 1996. She has published widely on (European and national) Identity Politics, Racism and Discrimination, Multilingualism and Language Policies, and Politics of the Past.
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