Michael McQuarrie

Michael McQuarrie is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics. Along with Caroline Lee and Edward Walker, he recently edited the forthcoming Democratizing Inequalities: The Promise and Pitfalls of the New Public Participation.

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Virtuous Citizens and Virtuous Cities

Immigration. Financial reform. Inequality. Climate change. Dysfunction has paralyzed America’s national politics and alienated its citizens. Not only do crises go unaddressed, but elected officials seem incapable even of agreeing on the need for government to fund itself. Politics has become more polarized, less reasonable, more ideological, and increasingly animated by a growing hostility to government itself. […]