"An excellent group of scholars tackle the complex issue of depoliticisation and leave the reader with still a few puzzles but also a considerable advance in understanding and insight" Professor Gerry Stoker, University of Canberra (Australia) and University of Southampton (UK) "This important edited volume takes one of the most heated debates among contemporary British students of politics and public policy one step further and provides important theoretical and empirical insights that can qualify further research into the role and function of the political in Western liberal democracies." Eva Sorensen, Roskilde University, Denmark