Chris Bickerton Defines Technopopulism

That tension between the politics of the whole and the politics of the part, that tension between the politics of generality and the politics of particularity, is really at the heart of party democracy. What we are sort of trying to capture, I suppose, with technopopulism is to think of a form of politics where that tension has simply gone. Chris Bickerton A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com. Key Highlights Include - Chris describes Technopopulism through an explanat...

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