Democracy and Participation: Popular Protest and New Social MovementsAn ideal introduction for undergraduate students of social movements in courses on sociology, social policy and political theory with a focus on collective action and social protest. The book provides accessible theoretical readings and case studies of particular movements concerned with women's rights, ethnicity and 'race', disability, peace, anti-privatization. It explores issues of youth and political involvement, free speech and unemployment and the role of voluntary and community groups in challenging traditional perspectives on democracy. There are contributions from writers at the cutting edge of recent empirical and theoretical work in these areas. Competition: Many texts focus on sociological approaches: (Nick Crossley, Making Sense of Social Movements, D Della Porta and M Siani, Social Movements: an Introduction; S Buechler, Social Movements in Advanced Capitalism). Our text will provide students with an accessible, clear and comprehensive introduction and critical analysis of new social movements and new social movements theory. |
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Page 13
From an elitist theory point of view , representative democracy is a sham - it is a ' camouflage for the oligarchic tendencies of power ' and the idea of participatory democracy is both undesirable and impossible to achieve ( Miller ...
From an elitist theory point of view , representative democracy is a sham - it is a ' camouflage for the oligarchic tendencies of power ' and the idea of participatory democracy is both undesirable and impossible to achieve ( Miller ...
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Bakunin denounces representative democracy as ' based on the pseudo - sov- ereignty of a sham popular will , supposedly expressed by pseudo - repre- sentatives of the people in sham popular assemblies ' ( Bakunin , 1990 : 13 ) .
Bakunin denounces representative democracy as ' based on the pseudo - sov- ereignty of a sham popular will , supposedly expressed by pseudo - repre- sentatives of the people in sham popular assemblies ' ( Bakunin , 1990 : 13 ) .
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Thus , VCOs probably did not contribute a great deal to representative democracy as defined above . However , many of our respondents saw democracy as more than this : ... A broader pluralist democracy is about ways in which ordinary ...
Thus , VCOs probably did not contribute a great deal to representative democracy as defined above . However , many of our respondents saw democracy as more than this : ... A broader pluralist democracy is about ways in which ordinary ...
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
New Social Movements and Democracy | 29 |
Anti Globalisation Anti Capitalism and the Democratic State | 55 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Democracy and Participation: Popular Protest and New Social Movements |
| Editors | Malcolm J. Todd, Gary Taylor |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Merlin, 2004 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 9 Oct 2008 |
| ISBN | 0850365384, 9780850365382 |
| Length | 345 pages |
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