Democracy in social movements

This collection explores conceptions and practices of democracy of social movement organizations involved in global protest. Focusing on the global justice movement this book shows how they adopt radical new democratic approaches and thus provide a fundamental critique of conventional politics.

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Group Author: Della Porta, Donatella, 1956
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Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230240865
Summary: This collection explores conceptions and practices of democracy of social movement organizations involved in global protest. Focusing on the global justice movement this book shows how they adopt radical new democratic approaches and thus provide a fundamental critique of conventional politics.
'Della Porta's new edited book, the culmination of years of group effort, shows that there is no contradiction between collaborative research and thematic closure, or between culturally-inspired and empirically executed work. Democracy in Social Movements eloquently shows how, from many different sources and with different ideological origins, the Global Justice Movement has painstakingly developed a method of internal consensus- building and deliberative democracy as it faces the forces of neo-liberalism. This is a book well worth having in the library of all scholars of social movements an
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Originally published in: 2009.
Carrier Form: 320 p. : 5 figures, 52.
ISBN: 9780230218833
9780230240865 :
0230240860 :
CLC: K02
Contents: List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgments Notes on the Contributors Organizational Structures and Visions of Democracy in the Global Justice Movement: An Introduction-- D.della Porta Global Justice Movement Organizations: The Organizational Population-- D.della Porta Participatory Traditions within the Global Justice Movement-- H.Reiter Consensus in Movements-- D.della Porta Social Movements and Multilevel Governance: The External Dimension of Democracy-- D.della Porta Why Are Social Movement Organizations Deliberative? Structural and Cultural Determinants of Internal Decision Making in