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Political activists, who are more directly implicated in these changes, have also adopted a new vocabulary: “agitated left,” “nongovernmental politics,”24 and “politics of the governed,”25 to name a few. The terms “anti-power” and 23 24 25 political knowledge, which is minimal, but rather of partisan identities that they acquire early in life. Note, too, that citizens are making greater efforts to inform themselves. See the data in Étienne Schweisguth, “La dépolitisation en question,” in Gérard Grunberg, Nonna Mayer, and Paul M.

6 (Dec. 2003). See Christopher Wlezien, “The Public as Thermostat: Dynamics of Preferences for Spending,” American Journal of Political Science 39, no. 4 (1995). 40 vigilance, denunciation, evaluation true body politic. ” Denunciation A second mode of surveillance, in addition to vigilance, is denunciation. Once again it was the French Revolution that introduced this term to the lexicon of civic action. Think of Marat’s impassioned diatribes in his newspaper, L’Ami du peuple, which included daily lists of enemies of the fatherland and conspirators against the republic.

While textbook descriptions may suffice for institutions, the powers of oversight and obstruction can only be appreciated in action. The idea of looking at both faces of democracy as vital, practical realities is not just of methodological significance. It also allows us to approach comparative politics in a new way. When democracy is studied in a classically normative perspective, no useful comparison is really possible. One can only record successes and failures, measure relative achievements, and establish typologies.

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