Democratic Multiplicity

Perceiving, Enacting, and Integrating Democratic Diversity

James Tully editor David Owen editor Oliver Schmidtke editor Fonna Forman editor Joshua Nichols editor Jeanne Morefield editor Pablo Ouziel editor Keith Cherry editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:4th Aug '22

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Discloses the radical diversity of the field of democracy that is overlooked by mainstream political science.

Our structures of democratic governance are often characterized by 'dysfunctionality', 'hollowing out', and 'gridlock'. This volume proposes an approach grounded in five different modes of democratic praxis. In exploring various democratic traditions, it recognizes that addressing eco-social crises requires coordination and cooperation among them.This edited volume argues that democracy is broader and more diverse than the dominant state-centered, modern representative democracies, to which other modes of democracy are either presumed subordinate or ignored. The contributors seek to overcome the standard opposition of democracy from below (participatory) and democracy from above (representative). Rather, they argue that through differently situated participatory and representative practices, citizens and governments can develop democratic ways of cooperating without hegemony and subordination, and that these relationships can be transformative. This work proposes a slow but sure, nonviolent, eco-social and sustainable process of democratic generation and growth with the capacity to critique and transform unjust and ecologically destructive social systems. This volume integrates human-centric democracies into a more mutual, interdependent and sustainable system on earth whereby everyone gains.

ISBN: 9781009178365

Dimensions: 230mm x 150mm x 25mm

Weight: 700g

400 pages