{"product_id":"deepening-democracy-institutional-innovations-in-empowered-participatory-governance-9781859844663","title":"Deepening Democracy: Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eArchon Fung\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eErik Olin Wright\u003c\/b\u003e is Vilas Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eClasses\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eInterrogating Inequality\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Class Counts\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDeepening Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e (with Archon Fung), and \u003ci\u003eEnvisioning Real Utopias\u003c\/i\u003e. For more information on Envisioning Real Utopias and the Real Utopias project, and to access book content, please visit realutopias.org (site in progress). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoshua Cohen\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1980 in New Jersey. He is the author of five books, including the novels \u003ci\u003eCadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Heaven of Others\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWitz\u003c\/i\u003e. Cohen's essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Forward\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNextbook\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Believer, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Brooklyn, NY. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoel Rogers\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and Director of COWS. His many books include\u003ci\u003e On Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRight Turn\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Forgotten Majority\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWhat Workers Want\u003c\/i\u003e. A longtime activist, Rogers was identified by \u003ci\u003eNewsweek \u003c\/i\u003eas one of the 100 Americans most likely to shape U.S. politics and culture in the 21st century.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51806086856978,"sku":"9781859844663","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_11ef29cc-07b6-447a-98df-a0a6e5663892.jpg?v=1765975102","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/deepening-democracy-institutional-innovations-in-empowered-participatory-governance-9781859844663","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}