Thomas O'Neill (political scientist)
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Thomas O’Neill is a student of Political Sciences, Public Administration and Philosophy at Leiden University in The Netherlands. He is known for coining the term people's politics.
[edit] People's politics
People's politics is contrasted to governmental politics, a concept Graham T. Allison and Philip D. Zelikow developed in their classic Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis. In governmental politics, a political decision is the result of a bargaining game between and inside political elites. In people’s politics, however, decisions are the result of a bargaining game between the political elites and civil society, which is conceived as an arena in which the public will is formulated.
