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Podcast: New Books in Politics and Polemics
Episode: Peter Allen, āThe Political Class: Why It Matters Who Our Politicians Areā (Oxford UP, 2018)
Description: Who is in charge? InĀ The Political Class: Why It Matters Who Our Politicians AreĀ (Oxford University Press, 2018), Peter Allen, a Reader in Comparative Politics in the Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies atĀ the University of Bath, explores the rise of a specific type of political leader and what this means for our politics. The book works through debates over the existence of a political class, arguing this āclassā is homogenised along lines ofĀ characteristics, attitudes, and behaviours, and carefully analysing potential defences of the political class. However, in presenting the intrinsic case, as well as an extensiv...