Comparing Strategies of (De)Politicisation in Europe

Jim Buller is Senior Lecturer of Politics at the University of York, UK. He is a member of the British Political Studies Association (PSA) Anti-Politics and Depoliticisation Specialist Group.Pınar E. Dönmez is Research Fellow at the Center For Policy Studies, Central European University, Hungary. She is a member PSA Anti-Politics and Depoliticisation Specialist Group.Adam Standring is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. He is a convenor and membership coordinator of the PSA Anti-Politics and Depoliticisation Specialist Group.Matt Wood is Lecturer in Politics and Deputy Director of the Sir Bernard Crick Centre for the Public Understanding of Politics (Crick Centre) at the University of Sheffield, UK. He has previously worked in local journalism and lobbying, and has held visiting fellowship positions at the UK Cabinet Office and ANZSOG Institute for Governance, University of Canberra.

• Chapter 1: Depoliticisation, Post-politics and the Problem of Change; Jim Buller, Pınar E. Dönmez, Adam Standring, Matthew Wood.- Chapter 2: Rethinking (De)Politicisation in Liberalism: Macro and Micro-Political Perspectives; Alen Toplisek.- Chapter 3: Re-politicising Government Accountability: the Case of Protest Network and the Model ‘Who?’ in Bulgaria; Gergana Yankova Dimova.- Chapter 4: The Airports Commission, Depoliticisation and the Third Runway at Heathrow Airport; Steven Griggs and David Howarth.- Chapter 5: Political Dissatisfaction and Decline of Party Identification: Societal Depoliticisation in the Republic of Cyprus (2006-12); Giorgos Charalambous and Direnc Kanol.- Chapter 6: Portugal and the European Union: Defining and Contesting the Boundaries of the Political; Adam Standring.- Chapter 7: Forms of Politicisation as Governing Strategy versus Resistance: Demystifying Capitalist Social Relations and the State in Turkey; Pınar E. Dönmez.- Chapter 8: Depoliticisation and Urban Politics: Moving Beyond the “Post-political” City; Ross Beveridge and Philippe Koch.- Chapter 9: Revanchism and Anti-revanchism in Hungary: the Dynamics of (De)politicisation and Criminalisation of Homelessness; Kata Amon.- Chapter 10: The Dynamics of Depoliticisation: Conclusions and Reflections; Jim Buller.