Reconstructing Democracy: How Citizens Are Building from the Ground Up

✍ Scribed by Charles Taylor; Patrizia Nanz; Madeleine Beaubien Taylor

Publisher: Harvard University Press
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Leaves: 120
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Today’s democracies suffer from two mutually reinforcing ills: declining problem-solving capacities and a growing disconnect between the people and political elites. Reconstructing Democracy offers case studies in citizen efficacy, showing how people can solve problems locally and thereby quell the frustrations that demagogues prey on.

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