Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age
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Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age
Abstract/Description
Since its appearance twenty years ago, Benjamin R. Barber's Strong Democracy has been one of the primary standards against which political science thinking and writing is measured. Defined as the participation of all of the people in at least some aspects of self-government at least some of the time, Strong Democracy offers liberal society a new way of thinking about and of practicing democracy. Contrary to the commonly held view that an excess of democracy can undo liberal institutions, Barber argues that an excess of liberalism has undermined our democratic institutions and brought about the set of crises we still find ourselves struggling against: cynicism about voting, alienation, privatization, and the growing paralysis of public institutions. In a new preface Barber looks at the past twenty years and restates his argument, which seems, sadly, more pressing than ever.
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Date
Edition
Twentieth-Anniversary Edition, With a New Preface
Resource type
Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
Published Text
Scholarship genre
Textbook
Open access/full-text available
No
Peer reviewed
No
ISBN
978-0-520-24233-3
Citation
Barber, B. R. (2004). Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age. Twentieth-anniversary edition, with a new preface. University of California Press.
Num pages
356
Rights
Available worldwide
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