David Marquand is een Britse academicus wiens geschriften breed de kwesties rondom de Britse politiek en sociaaldemocratie behandelen. Zijn werk duikt in de complexe wisselwerking van maatschappelijke krachten en politieke structuren binnen Groot-Brittannië. Marquands analyses kenmerken zich door een scherpe focus op de evolutie en de uitdagingen van sociaaldemocratische idealen. Hij biedt inzichtelijke perspectieven op de mechanismen die moderne politieke en sociale landschappen vormgeven.
Marquand explores the contrast between postwar success and current failures in Europe, addressing the resurgence of ethnic communities, xenophobic populism, and the democratic deficit in EU governance. He urges a reevaluation of Europe's identity and calls for leaders to tackle issues of ethnicity and integration to forge a cohesive, democratic future.
Since 2008's financial crisis, we have heard much about the failures of bankers, regulators and politicians. David Marquand sees a wider issue: the fall of the public realm. The crisis, he argues, is one of our moral economy as much as of our political economy. Already, we are well advanced towards a near-Hobbesian state of genteel barbarism - and greed is all-pervasive. Setting out a framework for a new public philosophy founded on civic conscience and cooperation, Marquand seeks to spring the trap into which our culture has stumbled. The message is plain: we cannot continue on our present path
A new political history of modern Britain - entertaining, instructive and thought-provoking.