The Politics of Lying - by L Cliffe & M Ramsay & D Bartlett (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

This book provides the first attempt to synthesise what is a pervasive phenomenon, and one that is mentioned tangentially in many political analyses, but nowhere receives the systematic and theoretical treatment that its significance to the working of 'democratic' political practice deserves. It will thus be a volume that should interest a range of scholars in government and political theory, in comparative politics and communications.

Review Quotes

'A refreshing and timely study on an issue central to our understanding of how we are governed and one too often neglected by academics.' - Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian

About the Author

LIONEL CLIFFE is Professor of Politics at the University of Leeds where he has worked for 10 years. He is a specialist in international politics and political economy, with special emphasis on developing countries and the relations of the west towards them. He is Deputy Director of the Leeds Centre for Democratisation Studies and has done much research on the 'third wave of democratisation'.

MAUREEN RAMSAY is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Leeds where she has worked since 1992. Before this she was Lecturer in Philosophy at Cardiff University. Her focus on aspects of social justice. She has written two books Human Needs and the Market (Avebury 1992) and What's Wrong with Liberalism (Leicester University Press 1997) as well as several articles.

DAVE BARTLETT has taught the Politics of Lying at the University of Leeds. His PhD is on the transition to multi-party politics in Zambia. His research interests are international politics and political economy, and the politics of developing countries.