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16-10-2023 | BOOK REVIEW

Ben Ansell, Why Politics Fails: The Five Traps of the Modern Word – and How to Escape Them

Viking: 2023, 343 pp. ISBN: 978-0-241-51763-5

Author: Michael Laver

Published in: Society

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In Why Politics Fails, Ben Ansell discusses how academic political economy informs the analysis of real political problems which are both serious and intractable. This is not pop social science, as the title might suggest. Ansell is an accomplished Oxford professor, with a mission to serve up mainstream social science in a dish that is palatable for an intelligent and curious lay readership. Ansell wants to convince ordinary decent civilians, as well as key policy makers, that political economy has plenty to say, outside the ivory tower, about pressing problems in the modern world. His five “traps” — democracy; equality; solidarity; security; and prosperity — serve both as an organizational device and a substantive focus. …

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Kenneth Arrow, Social Choice and Individual Values (1951: New Jersey, John Wiley and Sons).

Anthony Downs, An Economic Theory of Democracy (1957: New York, Harper).

Title: Ben Ansell, Why Politics Fails: The Five Traps of the Modern Word – and How to Escape Them
Viking: 2023, 343 pp. ISBN: 978-0-241-51763-5
Author: Michael Laver
Publication date: 16-10-2023
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Society
Print ISSN: 0147-2011
Electronic ISSN: 1936-4725
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-023-00920-2