Why We Are Living Through ‘Hyperpolitics’

Foreign Policy's Ravi Agrawal interviewed political scientist Anton Jager about his book Hyperpolitics, which argues that political engagement has spiked globally through voting and protest even as membership in unions and political parties has collapsed. Jager calls this a departure from both 20th-century mass politics and the low-engagement 'post-politics' of the 1990s and 2000s.

Jager traces the phenomenon to the decade following the 2008 financial crash, citing U.S. examples like record presidential turnout paired with historically low union membership. The discussion also touched on whether groups like the Democratic Socialists of America could reshape the Democratic Party through this same dynamic of high energy but thin institutional roots.

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