Shifting style of politics

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Publics, Politics & Power
Janet Newman and John Clarke
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Politics and the public

New forms of public participation are viewed as a means of engaging a public that is disenchanted with formal political styles and institutions, write Janet Newman and John Clarke in Publics, Politics & Power: Remaking the public in public services. They find that the ideas of ‘dirty politics’ and the perceived disenchantment of the ‘political class’ fro m everyday life play important roles in this.

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