Abstract
It's in the nature of politics to generate friends and enemies, by drawing borders and declaring hostilities. Of all the many criss-crossed trench-lines traversing our contemporary political battlescape, none is more enduring or more deeply-dug than the one than defines Right and Left according to calculations of the size and ambition of government. Where government absorbs a higher percentage of gross domestic product, and declares for itself a more ambitious roll-call of duties, it is usually presumed the Left is in the ascendant, and the Right's front-line is in danger of being breached. Conversely, where the public sector shrinks, and government proposes a narrower brief, the Right is evidently leading the assault. For many commentators the global financial crisis proves the point.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | All That's Left: What Labor Should Stand For |
Editors | Nick Dyrenfurth, Tim Soutphommasane |
Place of Publication | Sydney, N.S.W. |
Publisher | University of NSW Press |
Pages | 57-76 |
Number of pages | 20 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781742245454 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781742232423 |
Publication status | Published - 2010 |
Keywords
- political science
- political planning