Popular Democracy: The Paradox of Participation, Paperback - Gianpaolo Baiocchi

Local participation is the new democratic imperative. In the United States, three-fourths of all cities have developed opportunities for citizen in...

As the right conducts its anti-democratic project in the name of 'the people', scholar and activist Baiocchi proposes a left wing response to the i...

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DescriptionGrounded in intimate moments of family life in and out of hospitals, this book explores the hope that inspires us to try to create lives...

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Reducere. People demand authentic participation in decisions that affect their lives. ToP? methods answer that call because they reflect how humans think, gr...

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Since the Euro crisis began, Germany has emerged as Europe's dominant power. During the last three years, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been ...

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Design pervades our lives. Everything from drafting a PowerPoint presentation to planning a state-of-the-art bridge embodies this universal human a...

Argues that the state in America is rooted in the country's colonial experience and analyses the evidence for this by reviewing governance at all l...

Can political representation help women upend entrenched systems of power? Property and Power finds evidence that quotas improve women's ability to...

Exploration of the divine sonship of Jesus in the New Testament letter to the Hebrews

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Reducere. In these five eloquent and passionate pieces (which she gave as the prestigious Reith Lectures for the BBC) Patricia J. Williams asks how we might ...

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The eastern Roman Empire was the largest state in western Eurasia in the sixth century. A century later, it was a fraction of its former size. Rava...

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Why has China grown so fast for so long despite vast corruption? In China's Gilded Age, Yuen Yuen Ang argues that not all types of corruption hurt ...

Reducere. How can a state be represented by Jesse Helms and John Edwards at the same time? Journalist Rob Christensen answers that question and navigates a c...

Explains how women activists from across the political spectrum engaged with the state by working within both authoritarian regimes and inter-Ameri...

From Athens to New York, recent mass movements around the world have challenged austerity and authoritarianism with expressions of real democracy. ...

Responding to widespread disenchantment with electoral politics, this book gives a practical examination of the possibilities offered by a generali...

This book explains how and why information literacy can help to foster critical thinking and discerning attitudes, enabling citizens to play an inf...

Over the past quarter century new ideologies of participation and representation have proliferated across democratic and non-democratic regimes. In...

Since the end of the Pinochet regime, Chilean public policy has sought to rebuild democratic governance in the country. This book examines the link...

Open Democracy envisions what true government by mass leadership could look like.--Nathan Heller, New YorkerHow a new model of democracy that opens...

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