Cox, Laurence (2014) Review: Donatella della Porta. Can Democracy be Saved? Participation, Deliberation and Social Movements. Cambridge and Malden, MA: Polity, 2013. $69.95 hardcover / $24.95 paperback. Mobilization, 19 (4). pp. 459-460. ISSN 1086-671X

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Can Democracy be Saved? is two books in one, and carries off the trick impressively. The first book is a textbook of models of democracy – liberal, participatory, deliberative, electronic, global. As with comparable textbooks, it is essentially a typology, organised around the different adjectives which enable the all-purpose “democracy” to acquire concrete meaning. The second book is an account of how social movements practice democracy – both internally and in their pressure for wider political and social democratisation.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Donatella della Porta; Democracy; Participation; Deliberation; Social Movements;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology
Item ID:	5722
Depositing User:	Dr. Laurence Cox
Date Deposited:	23 Jan 2015 09:29
Journal or Publication Title:	Mobilization
Publisher:	San Diego State University)
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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