Officious
Rise of the busybody
state
Josie
Appleton
In
Anglo-Saxon countries there is a new and distinctive form of state: the
busybody state. This state is defined by an attachment to bureaucratic proceedures for their own sake: the rule for the sake of
a rule; the form for the sake of a form. Its insignias are the badge, the
policy, the code and the proceedure. The logic of
the regulation is neither to represent an elite class interest, nor to serve
the public, nor even to organise social relations with the greatest
efficiency as with classic bureaucracy, but rather to represent regulation
itself. This book analyses the logic of the busybody state, explains its
origins, and calls for a popular alliance defending the free realm of civil
society.
Author Bio
Josie Appleton is director of the Manifesto Club (www.manifestoclub.com),
which campaigns for freedom in everyday life, and is the author of dozens of
reports about contemporary civil liberties. She studied sociology and
politics at the University of Oxford (undergraduate) and the University of
London (graduate). She worked as a journalist and editor for five years. She
lives in London, UK.
Online: Facebook, Author Website, Blog, Twitter
Promotional Plans
Author blog, social media. Manifesto Club website, mailing list (5,000).
Author press contacts, left and right, broadsheet and tabloid -
extracts/reports/references in columns. Libertarian organisations like PEN,
Index, as well as right-wing libertarian such as Libertarian Alliance, and
Big Brother Watch. Events - such as at the Battle of Ideas, with 1500
attendees and a festival bookstore.
USP
A theorisation of people's everyday experience of the new officials in public
spaces. Accessible in style but penetrates the inner logic of contemporary
social relations.
Competing Books
Bad Laws 1849010102, by Philip Johnston
Constable, 2010
Categories
SOCIAL SCIENCE (General)(SOC026040) -> Sociology
(General)(SOC026040) -> Social Theory(SOC026040)
POLITICAL SCIENCE (General)(POL042050) -> Political Ideologies (General)(POL042050) -> Libertarianism(POL042050)
POLITICAL SCIENCE (General)(POL004000) -> Civil Rights(POL004000)
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Publication Date
December 2016
Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-78535-420-5
$15.95 | £9.99
8.5x5.5 inches | 216x140 mm
136PP
e-book
ISBN: 978-1-78535-421-2
$8.99 | £5.99
Library of Congress
2016937654
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