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Why Some Politicians Are More Dangerous Than Others

Why Some Politicians Are More Dangerous Than Others Hardback - 2011 - 1st Edition

by James Gilligan

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Hardback. New. Politicians and the political process, even in ostensibly democratic countries, can be deadly.
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  • Title Why Some Politicians Are More Dangerous Than Others
  • Author James Gilligan
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 180
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Polity Press, Cambridge
  • Date 2011
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780745649818
  • ISBN 9780745649818 / 0745649815
  • Weight 0.96 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.41 x 5.89 x 0.81 in (21.36 x 14.96 x 2.06 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Political parties - United States, Republican Party (U.S.: 1854- )
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011283987
  • Dewey Decimal Code 320.973

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From the rear cover

Politicians and the political process, even in ostensibly democratic countries, can be deadly. James Gilligan has discovered a devastating truth that has been "hiding in plain sight" for the past century - namely, that when America's conservative party, the Republicans, have gained the presidency, the country has repeatedly suffered from epidemics of violent death. Rates of both suicide and homicide have sky-rocketed. The reasons are all too obvious: rates of every form of social and economic distress, inequality and loss - unemployment, recessions, poverty, bankruptcy, homelessness also ballooned to epidemic proportions. When that has happened, those in the population who were most vulnerable have "snapped", with tragic consequences for everyone.

These epidemics of lethal violence have then remained at epidemic levels until the more liberal party, the Democrats, regained the White House and dramatically reduced the amount of deadly violence by diminishing the magnitude of the economic distress that had been causing it.

This pattern has been documented since 1900, when the US government first began compiling vital statistics on a yearly basis, and yet it has not been noticed by anyone until now except with regard to suicide in the UK and Australia, where a similar pattern has been described.

This book is a path-breaking account of a phenomenon that has implications for every country that presumes to call itself democratic, civilized and humane, and for all those citizens, voters and political thinkers who would like to help their country move in that direction.

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Citations

  • New York Review of Books, 02/23/2012, Page 34

About the author

James Gilligan is collegiate professor and MD at New York University.