Non-Western Social Movements and Participatory Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Non-Western Social Movements and Participatory Democracy write by Ekim Arbatli. This book was released on 2017-03-02. Non-Western Social Movements and Participatory Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book analyzes social movements across a range of countries in the non-Western world: Bosnia, Brazil, Egypt, India, Iran, Palestine, Russia, Syria, Turkey and Ukraine in the period 2008 to 2016. The individual case studies investigate how political and social goals are framed nationally and globally, and the types of mobilization strategies used to pursue them. The studies also assess how, in the age of transnationalism, the idea of participatory democracy produces new collective-action frames and mass-mobilization strategies. The book challenges the view that most social movements unequivocally seek to achieve higher levels of democratization. Instead, the authors argue that protesters across different movements advocate more involved forms of citizen participation, since passive representation through liberal democratic institutions fails to address mass grievances and demands for accountability in many countries.
Freedom Is an Endless Meeting
Freedom Is an Endless Meeting - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Freedom Is an Endless Meeting write by Francesca Polletta. This book was released on 2012-06-12. Freedom Is an Endless Meeting available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This “excellent study of activist politics in the United States over the past century” challenges the conventional wisdom about participatory democracy (Times Literary Supplement). Freedom Is an Endless Meeting offers vivid portraits of American experiments in participatory democracy throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on meticulous research and more than one hundred interviews with activists, Francesca Polletta upends the notion that participatory democracy is worthy in purpose but unworkable in practice. Instead, she shows that social movements have often used bottom-up decision making as a powerful tool for political change. Polletta traces the history of democracy from early labor struggles and pre-World War II pacifism, through the civil rights, new left, and women’s liberation movements of the sixties and seventies, and into today’s faith-based organizing and anti-corporate globalization campaigns. In the process, she uncovers neglected sources of democratic inspiration—such as Depression-era labor educators and Mississippi voting registration workers—as well as practical strategies of social protest. Polletta also highlights the obstacles that arise when activists model their democracies after nonpolitical relationships such as friendship, tutelage, and religious fellowship. She concludes with a call to forge new kinds of democratic relationships that balance trust with accountability, respect with openness to disagreement, and caring with inclusiveness. For anyone concerned about the prospects for democracy in America, Freedom Is an Endless Meeting will offer abundant historical, theoretical, and practical insights.
Local Democracy in Modern Mexico
Local Democracy in Modern Mexico - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Local Democracy in Modern Mexico write by Arturo Flores. This book was released on 2005. Local Democracy in Modern Mexico available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This in-depth study of local government in Mexico raises issues which go far beyond the territory it covers. It will be of absorbing interest to all students of local democracy and participatory methods, not only in Latin America, but in Western and Eastern Europe, the USA, Africa, Asia, and elsewhere, where initiatives and experimentation are driven by socio-economic change. Everywhere citizen participation has become an important part of the democratisation debate, and this is certainly the situation in contemporary Mexico. This book presents a revealing insight of the wide range of participatory mechanisms, including plebiscites, referenda and neighbourhood committees, which have been introduced by different political parties at the local level in Mexico. After presenting the overall picture, the author examines the implementation of the participatory agenda in three localities:
Private Groups and Public Life
Private Groups and Public Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Private Groups and Public Life write by Jan W. van Deth. This book was released on 1997. Private Groups and Public Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book focuses on the changing relationship between social and political involvement in Western Europe. Empirical case studies examine how new social movements interact with conventional political structures as individuals and groups experiment with new forms of political expression. The results indicate not a declining, but a changing democratic culture.
The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements
The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements write by Donatella Della Porta. This book was released on 2015. The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Handbook presents a most updated and comprehensive exploration of social movement research. It not only maps, but also expands the field of social movement studies, taking stock of recent developments in cognate areas of studies, within and beyond sociology and political science. While structured around traditional social movement concepts, each section combines the mapping of the state of the art with attempts to broaden our knowledge of social movements beyond classic theoretical agendas, and to identify the contribution that social movement studies can give to other fields of knowledge.
