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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Abstract
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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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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