Deepening Democracy: Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance

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Verso, 2003 - 310 páginas
The forms of liberal democracy developed in the 19th century seem increasingly ill-suited to the problems we face in the 21st. This dilemma has given rise to a deliberative democracy, and this text explores four contemporary cases in which the principles have been at least partially instituted.
 

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Thinking about Empowered Participatory Governance
3
Participation Activism and Politics The Porto Alegre Experiment
45
Democracy and Development Decentralized Planning in Kerala
77
Deliberative Democracy Chicago Style Grassroots Governance in Policing and Public Education
111
Habitat Conservation Planning
144
PracticeThoughtPractice
175
Reflections on What Makes Empowered Participatory Governance Happen
200
Toward Ecologically Sustainable Democracy?
208
Cycles of Reform in Porto Alegre and Madison
225
Power and Reason
237
Countervailing Power in Empowered Participatory Governance
259
References
291
Index
305
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Archon Fung is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University.

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