Officious: Rise of the Busybody State by Appleton, Josie

Officious: Rise of the Busybody State (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781785354205)

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Officious: Rise of the Busybody State by Appleton, Josie

Officious: Rise of the Busybody State

$15.95
Officious: Rise of the Busybody State by Appleton, Josie

Officious: Rise of the Busybody State

$15.95
Format: Paperback
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In Anglo-Saxon countries there is a new and distinctive form of state: the busybody state. This state is defined by an attachment to bureaucratic procedures for their own sake: the rule for the sake of a rule; the form for the sake of a form. Its insignias are the badge, the policy, the code and the procedure. The logic of the regulation is neither to represent an elite class interest, nor to serve the public, nor even to organise social relations with the greatest efficiency as with classic bureaucracy, but rather to represent regulation itself. This book analyses the logic of the busybody state, explains its origins, and calls for a popular alliance defending the free realm of civil society.

Author: Josie Appleton
ISBN-10: 1785354205
ISBN-13: 9781785354205
Publisher: Zero Books
Language: English
Published: 12/09/2016
Pages: 136
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.40d
By Josie Appleton
By Josie Appleton
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Josie Appleton is director of the Manifesto Club (www.manifestoclub.com), which campaigns for freedom in everyday life, and is the author of dozens of reports about contemporary civil liberties. She studied sociology and politics at the University of Oxford (undergraduate) and the University of London (graduate). She worked as a journalist and editor for five years.

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