Democratizing Inequalities (ePub)
conversation are everywhere in public life. From crowdsourcing and town hall
meetings to government experiments with social media, participatory politics increasingly
seem like a...
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Opportunities to have your say, get involved, and join the
conversation are everywhere in public life. From crowdsourcing and town hall
meetings to government experiments with social media, participatory politics increasingly
seem like a revolutionary antidote to the decline of civic engagement and the
thinning of the contemporary public sphere. Many argue that, with new
technologies, flexible organizational cultures, and a supportive policymaking
context, we now hold the keys to large-scale democratic revitalization.
Democratizing Inequalities shows that the equation may not be so
simple. Modern societies face a variety of structural problems that limit
potentials for true democratization, as well as vast inequalities in political
action and voice that are not easily resolved by participatory solutions. Popular
participation may even reinforce elite power in unexpected ways. Resisting an
oversimplified account of participation as empowerment, this collection of
essays brings together a diverse range of leading scholars to reveal surprising
insights into how dilemmas of the new public participation play out in politics
and organizations. Through investigations including fights over the
authenticity of business-sponsored public participation, the surge of the Tea
Party, the role of corporations in electoral campaigns, and participatory
budgeting practices in Brazil, Democratizing
Inequalities seeks to refresh our understanding of public participation and
trace the reshaping of authority in today's political environment.
Michael McQuarrie is
Associate Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and
Political Science and a Poiesis Fellow at New York University’s Institute for
Public Knowledge. His work has been published in venues such as: Politics and Society, Public Culture, City and Community, Annals,and Research
in Political Sociology. He recently edited Remaking Urban Citizenship with Michael Peter Smith.
Edward T. Walker is Associate Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research examines how organizations and institutional contexts shape public participation. His research has appeared in the American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Social Problems. He is the author of Grassroots for Hire: Public Affairs Consultants in American Democracy.
- 2015, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Caroline W. Lee, Michael Mcquarrie, Edward T. Walker
- Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
- ISBN-10: 1479880604
- ISBN-13: 9781479880607
- Erscheinungsdatum: 30.01.2015
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