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Making Democracy Work Better - Mediating Structures, Social Capital, and the Democratic Prospect (Paperback, New edition)
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Making Democracy Work Better - Mediating Structures, Social Capital, and the Democratic Prospect (Paperback, New edition)
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The decade of the 1980s marked a triumph for market capitalism. As
politicians of all stripes sought to reinvent government in the
image of private enterprise, they looked to the voluntary sector
for allies to assuage the human costs of reductions in public
policies of social welfare. This book details the ""savage side""
of market capitalism in Appalachia and explains the social,
political, and economic roles that mediating structures play in
mitigating it. Profiling the work of twenty-three such mediating
structures--community-based organizations that battled to provide
social safety nets, fight environmental assaults, and upgrade the
education and job skills of Appalachian residents--Richard Couto
distills the practical lessons to be found in their successes and
shortcomings. Couto argues that a broader set of democratic
dimensions be used in taking the measure of civil society and
public policy in the twenty-first century. He shows that mediating
structures promote the democratic prospect of reduced inequality
and increased communal bonds when they provide and advocate for new
forms and increased amounts of social capital--the public goods and
moral resources that we invest in one another as members of a
community. |Examines the theoretical relationship between
community-based organizations that link individuals and government
and assesses how this relationship has played out in American
public policy on education and health care.
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