Colin Crouch

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Colin Crouch (* 1944 in London - Isleworth ) is a British political scientist and sociologist . He became internationally known with his diagnostic work on post-democracy and the book of the same name.

Career

After graduating from high school, Crouch worked as a journalist for four years before studying sociology at the London School of Economics (LSE) in 1965 , from which he graduated in 1969 with a Bachelor of Arts . He then wrote his dissertation ( Ph.D. ) at Nuffield College , Oxford. He experienced the student unrest and the temporary occupation of the LSE in 1967 and 1968 as the elected President of the Students' Union . He wrote his first book about these experiences: The Student Revolt (1970).

He began his academic career in 1972 as a lecturer at the University of Bath ; he continued it as a lecturer and reader for the subject sociology at his training center LSE (1973–1985).

From 1985 to 1994 he was a Fellow of Trinity College , Oxford and Professor of Sociology at the University of Oxford . From 1995 to 2004 he taught and researched as Professor for Comparative Social Institutions at the European University Institute in Florence (EUI). Since 2005 he has been Professor of Governance and Public Management at the University of Warwick . He has also been a Fellow of the British Academy since 2005 .

He has been an "External Scientific Member" at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne since 1997. For his book The Strange Survival of Neoliberalism. Postdemokratie II received the 2012 literary prize The Political Book of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung .

theses

In 2004 Crouch published the work Post-Democracy , in 2008 in German under the title Postdemokratie . He understands an ideal post-democratic political system to be “a community in which elections are still held. There are elections that can even lead to governments having to say goodbye, in which, however, competing teams of professional PR experts control the public debate during the election campaigns so much that it degenerates into a sheer spectacle in which you can only talk about one Discussed a number of problems that the experts selected beforehand. The majority of citizens play a passive, silent, even apathetic role, they only react to the signals that are given to them. In the shadow of this political staging, real politics is made behind closed doors: by elected governments and elites who primarily represent the interests of business. "

To calm the masses, a sham democracy is staged as a show event.

In 2008 Crouch accused the politics of neoliberalism : “The more the state withdraws from caring for the lives of ordinary people and allows them to sink into political apathy, the easier it is for business associations - more or less unnoticed - to unite them Make self-service shop. The fundamental naivety of neoliberal thinking lies in the inability to recognize this. "

In his book Beyond Neoliberalism. A 2013 plea for social justice was written by Crouch on the role of social democracy in politics, economy and society. He was mainly referring to the movement that enforces social and democratic developments in capitalist societies. “Crouch wants to give European social democracy self-confidence and clarity about its tasks.” He sees the taming of the self-destructive tendencies of capitalism as a great success story of social democracy. But he also recognizes the problems of the social democratic parties and sends them a "wake-up call" to recognize and perceive their role.

Through his publications, according to the taz , Crouch has become “perhaps the most important intellectual key witness of the social democracy for more state regulation”.

In his 2015 book The Numbered World , Crouch criticized the economization of many areas of life, creating powerful private companies:

“The democratic community suffers particularly from this abundance of power, because reliable information is its elixir of life. As soon as the holders of large spheres of influence have the power to withhold information or to provide the public with one-sided, misleading or otherwise manipulated information, the affected community becomes a hostage to their own interests. "

In 2015, the Frankfurt economic historian Werner Plumpe criticized in a review for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that Crouch undifferentiated attributed the concept of New Public Management to a " neoliberalism conjured up out of the hat ", where it was simply about the efficiency control of a cost-driving welfare state.

In February 2017, a few weeks after Donald Trump took office as US President , Crouch grappled with the new form of nationalism that calls into question globalization and the way of life of many people in Western countries.

Publications

Fonts

  • The Student Revolt. Bodley Head, London 1970.
  • Class Conflict and the Industrial Relations Crisis. Heineman, London 1977.
  • (Ed. With Alessandro Pizzorno) The Resourgence of Class Conflict in Western Europe since 1968. 2 volumes. Palgrave Macmillan UK. London 1978.
  • The Politics of Industrial Relations. Fontana 1979.
  • Trade Unions: The Logic of Collective Action. Fontana 1982.
  • Industrial Relations and European State Traditions. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1993.
  • (Ed. With Wolfgang Streeck ) The Political Economy of Modern Capitalism: Mapping Convergence and Diversity. 1997.
  • Post-democracy. Polity, Cambridge 2005, ISBN 0-7456-3314-5 .
    • German: post-democracy. , from the English by Nikolaus Gramm, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-12540-3 .
  • The Strange Non-death of Neo-liberalism. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken 2011, ISBN 978-0-7456-5221-4 .
    • German: The strange survival of neoliberalism. Postdemokratie II , Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-42274-8 .
  • Making Capitalism Fit for Society. Polity, Cambridge 2013.
  • Market and morals. In conversation with Peter Engelmann. Edited by Peter Engelmann, translated by Georg Bauer. Passagen, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-7092-0110-7 .
  • The Knowledge Corrupters. Hidden Consequences of the Financial Takeover of Public Life. Polity Press, Cambridge 2015, ISBN 978-0-7456-6985-4 .
    • German: The numbered world: How the logic of the financial markets threatens knowledge. (Post-Democracy III). Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-518-42505-3 .
  • The struggle for globalization , Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-7092-0301-9 .
  • Can neoliberalism be saved from itself?
  • The super-rich endanger democracy , from the English on Zeit.de of June 5, 2019
  • Will the Gig Economy Prevail? Polity, Cambridge 2019.
    • German: Gig Economy. Precarious work in the age of Uber, Minijobs & Co. suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-518-12742-1 .

Interviews

Web links

Commons : Colin Crouch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Colin Crouch In: Cultural Exchange III / 2008 ( Memento from August 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Retrieved August 2014)
  2. ↑ Colin Crouch on British Academy website ( May 1, 2016 memento on Internet Archive ). Retrieved May 1, 2016
  3. ↑ see Emeritus Professor Colin Crouch: External Scientific Member (page about Crouch at the MPI for the Study of Societies) , accessed on March 27, 2015
  4. ^ Colin Crouch: Post Democracy. Frankfurt am Main 2008, p. 10.
  5. ↑ a b Colin Crouch: "The figured world" - Of loss of democracy and withdrawal of knowledge. Deutschlandfunk , September 7, 2015, accessed on September 15, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Crouch: Post-Democracy. Frankfurt am Main 2008, p. 29 f.
  7. ↑ Robert Misik: A win-win situation. Friday 18th July 2013.
  8. ↑ No idea, nowhere. taz November 29, 2013.
  9. ↑ Werner Plumpe: This is how the story of terribly evil neoliberalism goes. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. October 20, 2015, p. 12.
  10. ↑ zeit.de February 11, 2017: Nationalism is globalizing
personal data
SURNAME Crouch, Colin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British political scientist and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH London - Isleworth