Must politics be war? : restoring our trust in the open society

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Must politics be war? : restoring our trust in the open society

Title remainder

restoring our trust in the open society

Statement of responsibility

Kevin Vallier

Creator

• Vallier, Kevin

Subject

• Civil society -- United States
• Liberalism -- United States
• Polarization (Social sciences) -- Political aspects -- United States
• Political culture -- United States

Language

eng

Summary

Americans are far less likely to trust their institutions, and one another, than in decades past. This collapse in social and political trust arguably inspires our increasingly ferocious ideological conflicts and hardened partisanship. Many believe that our previously high levels of trust and bipartisanship were a pleasant anomaly and that today we live under the historic norm. For politics itself is nothing more than a struggle for power between groups with irreconcilable aims. Contemporary American politics is war because political life as such is war. This text argues that our shared liberal democratic institutions have the unique capacity to sustain social and political trust between diverse persons.--

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Oxford scholarship online.

Target audience

specialized