Revolving door (politics)

The revolving door is a metaphor for quickly switching between two states ( " in / out " ) describes. The term has negative connotations. He typically represents pictorially represents a change, which returns to the original state after a short time and denouncing according to the uselessness of this change on.

An example of the use is in the hospital sector, criticism of measures of time spent shortening. Here, critics argue, by the early release there is a risk that the health status of (not completely healed ) patients can deteriorate quickly and the patient will then re- admitted to the hospital after a short time after a relapse. The patient leaves the hospital through the revolving door and returns after a short time back. See: Criticism of the time spent shortening.

Corresponding uses is also available in other areas:

• The inadequate (according to the critics ) the rehabilitation measures lead to high relapse rates occur and prisoners are sentenced to prison after release from prison again. The prison door is in the metaphor of the revolving door that leads directly back to jail.
• A similar phenomenon is described in the homeless. The integration and in particular the follow-up are often so unsustainable that homelessness occurs again.
• In bankruptcy law is also spoken by the revolving door, when the ( private ) debtors in some cases even re-created debt during the ongoing bankruptcy proceedings.
• Time work is for many people a "door" from unemployment to wage labor it may be considered, since the job security at temporary employment company is small and temporary workers are at risk during the economic downturn first of dismissal, denote critic -time work as a revolving door of unemployment in the job and back again. In the wider context switching formerly of permanent employees in temporary employment relationships, eg intercompany temporary employment agency, under worse conditions and the subsequent permanent loan is also referred to as a revolving door.
• Alcoholics ... in the addiction help they are considered difficult group. Although they are often at the bottom so they will abstinence treatment only in the rarest cases. Sign up in the hospital for the withdrawal to be backsliding, try again, backslide again, log back on to withdrawal, and so on. " Revolving door " the experts call. The detoxification stations and residential treatment facilities that continue the addiction treatment after the physical withdrawal, are full of such relapse patients.

The metaphor is also used to describe the flying change between politics and business. Here the image shows less on the exchange back and forth as to the property of the revolving door, present a fast connection, from. Politicians are too closely associated in the criticizing use of this term with the economy. The rapid change of the policy in the economy carries the risk of conflicts of interest. The German term comes from the English " Revolving Door ", in French, for a similar effect as the metaphor " Pantouflage " ( roughly translates to: " great slippers attract" ) and used in Japanese, the term " amakudari ".