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...John J. Sweeney New Political Science, Volume 26, Number 1, March 2004 1/11 Carfax Publishing Taylor & Francis Group COMMENTARyl Can We Be a Democracy if Democracy Ends at the Workplace Door? John J. Sweeney President, AFL-CIO Thank you, Christine [Kelly], for those kind words. Thank you to New...

...Hayley Elszasz Democracy without Shortcuts: A Participatory Conception of Deliberative Democracy, by Cristina Lafont , Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press , 2019 , 288 pp., $47.95 (hardback), ISBN: 978-0-1988-4818-9 © 2023 Hayley Elszasz 2023 @416 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Toby S. James Abstract This article presents an alternative general model of democracy to traditional minimalist (electoral and liberal) and deliberative theories by drawing from critical realist philosophical thought. Realist or real democracy is proposed as a societal system where preconditions...

...Frank Hearn * Portions of this piece will be appearing in my forthcoming book, Reason and Freedom in Sociological Thought, copyrighted by Allen and Unwin. © 1985 Caucus for a New Political Science 1985 Frank Hearn The Rationalization of Democracy: Liberal, Elitist...

.... Republican theory can benefit from attention to the emergence of social democracy in the early twentieth century, and to the role of republican ideas in that emergence. Jean Jaurès, perhaps the most prominent exponent of social democracy at that time, drew on the republican tradition to defend a concept...

...Tom Malleson Abstract While the notion that parts of the economy should be subject to democratic oversight is not particularly new, it is only recently that the term “economic democracy” has begun to emerge as a political label and a political project in its own right. Interest in economic...

... important ground opening the space for further critical recycling analysis. SARAH SURAK Salisbury University, USA © 2013 Sarah Surak httpdx.doi.org/l0.l080/07393148.2012.754680 Suzanne Mettler, The Submerged State: How Invisible Government Policies Undermine American Democracy, Chicago, IL: University...

...Jama Lazerow Edward P. Morgan , What Really Happened to the 1960s: How Mass Media Culture Failed American Democracy , Lexington, KY : University Press of Kansas , 2010 , 405 pp. © 2014, Jama Lazerow 2014 Book Reviews 123 Martin particularly admires James Madison. Having opposed...

... participation, but that may nonetheless force some degree of compromise on the part of Haiti's intransigent rulers. The article explores these issues from the vantage point of the struggle for democracy, which has served as a prism through which Haiti's class struggle has been refracted. The political...

... an expression to the non-determinate drives of social-historical individuals and communities. The possibility of the CAs contributing to a rejuvenation of the democratic experience is to be located in their shifting of the terms of democracy away from issues of representation and rationality, and toward those...

...Brian Caterino New Political Science, 2013 Vol. 35,~o. 2,313-331 Book Reviews James Johnson and Jack Knight, The Priority of Democracy: The Political Consequences ofPragmatism, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011, 336 pp. The Priority of Democracy by James Johnson and Jack Knight...

...William L. Niemi 322 Book Reviews which Dean wishes to highlight. Part of this issue links to an overall problem in her conceptualization of our political economic context today: namely, her blanket (and rather non-dialectical) critique of "democracy" and "communicative capitalism" leaves no real...

... the unemployed and unemployable morph into 1 Wendy Brown, "Neo-Liberalism and the End of Liberal Democracy," Theory & Event 7:1 (2003); and Wendy Brown, "American Nightmare: Neoliberalism, Neoconservatism, and De-Democratization," Political Theory 34:6 (2006), pp. 690-714. 2 Jamie Peck, "Zombie N eoliberalism...

...John C. Berg Ivan Krastev , Democracy Disrupted: The Politics of Global Protest Philadelphia, PA : The University of Pennsylvania Press , 2014 , 84 pp. © 2015, John C. Berg 2015 Book Reviews 149 mortality statistics of classes (p. 384). Piketty challenges the standard notion...

...Brian Stipelman Josh Lerner , Making Democracy Fun: How Game Design Can Empower Citizens and Transform Politics , Cambridge, MA : MIT Press , 2014 , 288 pp. © 2015, Brian Stipelman 2015 Book Reviews 155 disabling at worst. In the few places where his critique strays from...

... York City: Participatory Budgeting and Democracy Celina Su Environmental Psychology and Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center and Brooklyn College, New York, NY, USA ABSTRACT Because of its popularity, there is now a large literature examining how participatory budgeting (PB) deepens participation...

... NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE, 2017 VOL. 39, NO.1, 109-125 httpdx.doLorg/1 0.1 080107393148.2017.1278857 Growing Grassroots Democracy: Dynamic Outcomes in Building New York City's Participatory Budgeting Program Isaac Jabola-Carolus Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA ABSTRACT...

...Jason Vick Abstract What is the relationship between participatory and radical democracy and why are they relevant? This paper answers these questions by bringing into conversation the participatory theory of Pateman and the radical theories of Rancière and Wolin to see what they can learn from...

...Kathleen Staudt Carl Boggs , Drugs, Power, and Politics: Narco Wars, Big Pharma, and the Subversion of Democracy , Boulder, CO : Paradigm Publishers , 2015 , 257 pp. © 2015 Kathleen Staudt 2015 440 Book Reviews differed on normative visions of exactly what constituted...

...David W. Mclvor Abstract Amidst increasing and seemingly intransigent inequalities, unresponsive institutions, and illegible patterns of social change, political theorists are increasingly faced with questions about the viability of democracy in the contemporary age. One of the most prominent...