Does politics justify cynicism and disillusionment? | Éric Montpetit | TEDxMontreal
Eric Montpetit |
TEDxMontreal
• February 2019
Cynicism and disillusionment with politics has reached new heights in Western democracies. Why? Éric Montpetit, a specialist in public policy, argues that since the early 1990s the media coverage of politics shows a politics that entertains at the expense of a politics that works. The public is thus kept in the dark that alongside the vicious attacks between political adversaries, there is a more peaceful policy that improves our lives. In his talk, Montpetit lifts the veil on this working policy.
Éric Montpetit is a political science professor at the Université de Montréal and vice-dean - teaching staff - at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He has a Ph.D in comparative and Canadian public policy at McMaster University. He has authored three books, co-authored three others and published over 80 articles or book chapters. His latest book, In Defense of Pluralism: Policy Disagreement and Its Media Coverage, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2016. Montpetit's work examines the politics of scientific expertise that engages when public policy stakeholders begin to express divergent views on government action.
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