Open AccessNoted: Disengagement and idiocy
Author(s) -
Philip Cass
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
pacific journalism review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 2324-2035
pISSN - 1023-9499
DOI - 10.24135/pjr.v21i2.141
Subject(s) - disengagement theory , polity , democracy , nobody , power (physics) , project commissioning , politics , media studies , journalism , publishing , political economy , sociology , political science , law , gerontology , medicine , physics , quantum mechanics , computer science , operating system
Cass, P. (2015). Disengagement and idiocy. Pacific Journalism Review, 21(2): 213-214. Book review of American Democracy, by Andrew Perrin. Cambridge: Polity Press. 2014, 228pp. ISBN 978-0-7456622-32-9. Perrin's study of American democracy begins by stating what has become a commonplace of fear in many democracies, that people have become cynical and distrusting of the democractic system and that apathy and political disengagement are widespread. Only multi-millionaries backed by capitalist corporations with the deepest pockets can afford to run for office in the United States and nobody in power seems to be in any hurry to do anything about it.