Colin Crouch

Colin Crouch ( born 1944 ) is a British political scientist and sociologist. With its contemporary critical work on the post-democracy and the book of the same name he became known internationally.

Career

After finishing school, Crouch worked for four years as a journalist before 1965 sociology at the London School of Economics (LSE ) began, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1969. Then he wrote his dissertation ( Ph.D.) at Nuffield College, Oxford. The student unrest and the temporary occupation of the LSE in the years 1967 and 1968 he experienced as an elected President of the Students' Union. About this experience he wrote his first book: The Student Revolt (1970).

His academic career began in 1972 as a Lecturer initially at the University of Bath; he continued it as a Lecturer and Reader for Sociology at his training facility LSE ( 1973-1985 ).

From 1985 to 1994 he was a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford and at the same time a professor of sociology at the University of Oxford. From 1995 to 2004 he taught and conducted research as a professor of Comparative Social Institutions at the European University Institute in Florence ( EUI ). Since 2005 he is Professor of Governance and Public Management at the University of Warwick.

At the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, he is " External Scientific Member".

For his book The strange survival of neoliberalism. Post-Democracy II is replaced by Crouch 2012 Literature Prize, the political book of the Friedrich- Ebert -Stiftung.

Theses

Published in 2004, Crouch 's work post- Democracy, 2008 in German under the title post-democracy. Under an ideal-typical post-democratic political system he understands " a community, are in the while held as before elections, elections which even cause that governments must take their leave, in which, however, competing teams of professional public relations experts, the public debate during the election campaigns control so strong that it degenerates into a mere spectacle, in which only discussed a number of issues that have previously selected the experts. The majority of citizens plays a passive, silent, and even apathetic role, they only react to the signals you give them. In the shadow of this political staging the real policy is made behind closed doors: from elected governments and elites who represent primarily the interests of the economy. "

The politics of neoliberalism throws Crouch before: " The more the state withdraws from caring for the lives of ordinary people and admits that these sink into political apathy, the easier business associations can it - more or less unnoticed - Make it a self-service store. The inability to recognize this is the fundamental naivete of neoliberal thinking. "

In his book Beyond the neo-liberalism. A plea for social justice from 2013 Crouch writes about the role of social democracy in politics, economy and society. It refers not so much to specific parties, but rather on the movement, social and democratic development interspersed in capitalist societies. " Crouch will give the European social democracy confidence and clarity about their tasks. " Taming the self-destructive tendencies of capitalism he sees as a great success story of social democracy. But he also recognizes the problems of the social democratic parties and addressed to them a " wake up call " to recognize and fulfill their role.

Through its publications Crouch is "has become perhaps the most important intellectual star witness of social democracy for more government regulation " Loud taz.

Publications

Writings

  • The Student Revolt, Bodley Head, London 1970
  • Class Conflict and the Industrial Relations Crisis, Heineman, London 1977
  • (Ed. with Alessandro Pizzorno ) The Resourgence of Class Conflict in Western Europe Since 1968, 2 volumes. Mamillan. London 1978
  • The Politics of Industrial Relations, Fontana 1979
  • Trade Unions: The Logic of Collective Action, Fontana 1982
  • Industrial Relations and European State Traditions, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1993
  • (Ed. with Wolfgang Streeck ) The Political Economy of Modern Capitalism: Mapping Convergence and Diversity, (1997)
  • Post -democracy, Polity, Cambridge 2005, ISBN 0-7456-3314-5 German: post-democracy, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-12540-3
  • German: The strange survival of neoliberalism. Post-Democracy II, Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-42274-8
  • German: Beyond neoliberalism. A plea for social justice. Passages, Vienna, 2013, ISBN 978-3-709-20067-4

Interviews

  • Lecture and discussion in the Bruno Kreisky Forum, Vienna, March 5, 2009 In: Post Democracy kreisky -forum.org (PDF, 243 kB).
  • Post Democracy - Interview with Colin Crouch. In: nonapartofthegame.eu, 2011
  • We Are Living in a Post Democracy. In: dw- world.de, German wave 2008
  • A schizophrenic moment. In: taz.de, taz 2008
  • We can not beat the monster, but we can be little flies did irritate it. In: Powision.de, Powision 2013
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