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Direct action and democracy today / April Carter.

Title
Direct action and democracy today / April Carter.
Author
Carter, April.
Publication
Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2005.

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xi, 298 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
  • "Direct Action and Democracy Today begins by looking at nonviolent direct action in the context of historical trends and differing ideological traditions. It then examines the association between direct action and the social movements of recent decades and charts its role in the new global movement against neoliberal economic policies. The second part of the book focuses on political theory, examining how direct action fits with theories of liberal, republican and deliberative democracy. It goes on to consider socialist and cosmopolitan approaches to democracy and popular resistance and concludes by looking at the implications of protest politics for current democratic thinking and contemporary world events."
  • "This book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of international politics and political theory."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Direct action
  • Political participation
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Direct action : past and present -- pt. 1. Liberal states, global neoliberalism and issues of power. Violence, nonviolence and power : is liberal democracy nonviolent? ; Democratic deficit, civil society and social movements : the role for direct action ; Economic globalization and democratic deficit : the role of global resistance -- pt. 2. Democratic theory and the role of direct action. Liberal democratic theory, direct action and globalization ; Participatory democracy and direct action : republicanism, deliberative democracy and critiques ; Socialism, cosmopolitanism and direct democracy ; Democratic arguments for direct action.
ISBN
  • 0745629350 (hbk.)
  • 0745629369 (pbk.)
OCLC
56651342
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library