Lecture 3

Question 1

What are the 3 characteristics of a post-political era?

Answer 1

• Technocratic governance
• Consensus
• Neoliberalism

Question 2

Reflexivity

Answer 2

individualism, privatization and decentralization and globalization

Question 3

Life-politics

Answer 3

concerns life-decisions that come from self-actualization

Question 4

dialogic democracy

Answer 4

politics facilitate the creation of active trust and this generates solidarity among individuals and groups

Question 5

What are the five dilemmas of social democracy?

Answer 5

1. consequences of globalization
2. spread of individualism
3. disappearance of the left/right division
4. politics has moved outside of parliament and orthodox political organisations
5. new urgency: ecological issues