Deepening Democracy: Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance: v. 4 (The Real Utopias Project) - Softcover

Fung, Archon

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ISBN 10: 1859844669 ISBN 13: 9781859844663

Verlag: Verso, 2003

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"As we lose sight of alternatives, there is no more important political and theoretical task than to develop real utopias, real in that they are based on existing institutional experiments, utopian in that they challenge the ruling ideas of the epoch. In Deepening Democracy, the latest volume in the Real Utopias series, Archon Fung and Erik Olin Wright have brought together cases of what they call 'empowered participatory governance,' cases in which popular political participation becomes a vehicle for equity and efficiency. From Chicago public education to panchayat reform in Kerala, from habitat conservation in the United States to participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre, we have case studies that enable Fung and Wright to think through the practical problems of real democracy. This is an inspirational political critique but at the same time a program for critical politics." - Michael Burawoy, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkley "Erik Wright has made a towering contribution to the thought of the left over a quarter of a century. This arises from his own intellectual contribution ... but also from his tireless work in identifying issues, bringing people together, and encouraging them to publish their results." - Science and Society

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One of the great ironies of our time is that the triumph of democracy in much of the world has been accompanied by increasing scepticism that the liberal democratic institutions we inherited from the nineteenth century can address the social and economic crises of the new millennium. Those institutions emphasize government for the people while sacrificing government of the people and by the people. Do these crises lead inexorably to privatization, deregulation, and retreat from the affirmative state? Or, do they create opportunities to invent new political forms that realise the deeper democratic ideal of government of and by, as well as for, the people? This volume explores four contemporary empirical cases of empowered participatory governance that treat the latter, more hopeful, course: the participatory budget in Porto Alegre; decentralized school councils and community policing groups in Chicago; stakeholder planning in environmental protection and habitat management; and new participatory governance structures in Kerala, India. In the style of the other Real Utopias Project volumes, these case studies are framed by an introductory essay that lays out the central principles of empowered participatory governance, a set of commentaries on the cases and these principles, and a concluding essay.

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• Verlag: Verso
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1859844669
• ISBN 13: 9781859844663
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320