{"id":213,"date":"2014-11-20T09:59:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T09:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/antipolitics\/?p=213"},"modified":"2014-11-20T09:59:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T09:59:20","slug":"anti-politics-its-not-the-economy-stupid-its-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/2014\/11\/20\/anti-politics-its-not-the-economy-stupid-its-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-politics: It&#8217;s not the economy, stupid; it&#8217;s you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.policy-network.net\/pno_detail.aspx?ID=4778&amp;title=Anti-politics-Its-not-the-economy-stupid-its-you\">blog for Public Policy Network<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drjennings\">Will Jennings<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProfStoker\">Gerry Stoker<\/a> have argued that the rise of anti-politics in the present is not just a symptom of a political failure on economics, but citizens&#8217; sense of being failed by a political class that lacks the competence and strength of character to follow the right policy options and, above all, is regarded as too short-termist, media-obsessed and in cahoots with the rich and powerful to provide leadership in the public interest. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a blog for Public Policy Network, Will Jennings and Gerry Stoker have argued that the rise of anti-politics in the present is not just a symptom of a political failure on economics, but citizens&#8217; sense of being failed by a political class that lacks the competence and strength of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}