Download or read book In Defence of Politics written by Bernard Crick and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 2000 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1962, this account of the meaning and benefits of politics is updated for the 21st century. Bernard Crick asserts that politics with its compromises and power struggles remains the only tested alternative to government by coercion, making both freedom and order possible in heterogeneous societies. For Crick, politics is messy and complex, and his book defends it against those who would identify it with (and reduce it to) ideology, democracy, nationalism or technology.