‘Politics is designed to disappoint’. That is one of the main arguments of Gerry Stoker’s book ‘Why politics matters: Making democracy work’. The book explores our current democracy and reasons for disenchantment. Stoker explains why people find politics such a pain in the neck, and he does so with a mission: persuading citizens that politics is crucially important to their freedom and wellbeing. ...

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Van de Walle, S. (2007, January). Book review: by Gerry Stoker, Why politics matters: making democracy work. Palgrave Macmillan (ISBN 1-4039-9740-3). Local Government Studies. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/50048