Deepening Democracy: Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance

The institutional forms of liberal democracy developed in the nineteenth century seem increasingly ill-suited to the problems we face in the twenty-first. This dilemma has given rise in some places to a new, deliberative democracy, and this volume explores four contemporary empirical cases in which the principles of such a democracy have been at least partially instituted: the participatory budget in Porto Alegre; the school decentralization councils and community policing councils in Chicago; stakeholder councils in environmental protection and habitat management; and new decentralised governance structures in Kerala. In keeping with the other Real Utopias Project volumes, these case studies are framed by an editors' introduction, a set of commentaries, and concluding notes.

Author: Archon Fung

Publisher: Verso

Publication Date: Mar 17, 2003

Number of Pages: 312 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 1859844669

ISBN-13: 9781859844663