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Amsterdam University Press
Politics is about conflict, struggle, decision-making, power and influence. But not every conflict and not every situation in which power is exercised is widely regarded as politics. A football coach who decides to leave a player on the bench because he has given him a bit of lip, is exerting power, and there is conflict here, too. However, few people would consider this a political issue. The... Read more
Chapter 1. Politics and power, Chapter 2. Social and Political Inequality, Chapter 3. Nations, Nationalism and the Nation State, Chapter 4. The Welfare State under Pressure, Chapter 5. Consensus Democracy in the Netherlands
Biography
Philip van Praag is Senior Lecturer Political Science at the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam.
