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How Social Movements Can Save Democracy - Democratic Innovations from Below (Hardcover)
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How Social Movements Can Save Democracy - Democratic Innovations from Below (Hardcover)
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The birth of democracies owes much to the interventions and
mobilizations of ordinary people. Yet many feel as though they have
inherited democratic institutions which do not deliver for the
people - that a rigid democratic process has been imposed from
above, with increasing numbers of people feeling left out or left
behind. In this well-researched volume, leading political
sociologist Donatella della Porta rehabilitates the role social
movements have long played in fostering and deepening democracy,
particularly focusing on progressive movements of the Left which
have sought to broaden the plurality of voices and knowledge in
democratic debate. Bridging social movement studies and democratic
theory, della Porta investigates contemporary innovations in times
of crisis, particularly those in the direction of participatory and
deliberative practices - 'crowd-sourced constitutions', referendums
from below and movement parties - and reflects on the potential and
limits of such alternative politics. In a moment in which concerns
increase for the potential disruption of a Great Regression led by
xenophobic movements and parties, the cases and analyses of
resistance in this volume offer important material for students and
scholars of political sociology, political science and social
movement studies.
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