Politics in the Times of Indignation : the Crisis of Representative Democracy

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Politics in the Times of Indignationthe Crisis of Representative Democracy\nAuthor(s): Daniel Innerarity, Sandra Kingery\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350178007, 978-1350178007\nSynopsis\nPolitics in the Times of Indignation provides a critical look at Western liberal democracies in crisis, to provide us with the theoretical tools to make sense of the political disorientation of our times.\n\nIndispensable for understanding the present state of democratic societies, this book is a lens through which we can study numerous contemporary developments. He examines the popular indignation that has accompanied the crisis of governmental legitimacy, which is aggravated by the economic crisis in various countries and demonstrated by groups such as the Occupy Wall Street Movement in the US, Podemos in Spain, or La France Insoumise in France.\n\nAt the same time, Innerarity endeavors to offer a universal, rat.