Author
Rogenhofer; Julius Maximilian
Year
2024
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Language
English
Pages
9
ISBN
978-0-47290-339-9
Last Update
04-Nov-2024
Keywords
Political Science ; Public Policy & Administration ; European Studies ; Law
This book studies how representatives use fear of disorder to shape political outcomes. Fear of disorder imagines the breakdown of political relations within a state and the loss of authority of its prevailing institutions. This fear of disintegration resembles Thomas Hobbes’s pessimistic interpretation of the state of nature, descent into which remains a perpetual possibility and one that representatives must address and counteract. While the onset of an anarchical “warre of every man against his neighbour” seems a remote prospect in ordinary democratic politics (Hobbes [1651] 1996, 171), fear of disintegration knows various guises. Crime, violence, and public protests all...
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