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Volume IV of the Real Utopias Project
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.
Erik Olin Wright is Vilas Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin. Archon Fung is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University.
Feb. 2003
Real Utopias Project,
Volume 4
224 pages
Paper
1 85984 466 9
US$22 / £17 / CAN$32
Cloth
1 85984 688 2
US$60 / £40 / CAN$87
Other volumes in the Real Utopias Project:
Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers, eds., Associations and Democracy (vol. 1)
John Roemer et al., Equal Shares: Making Market Socialism Work (vol. 2)
Samuel Bowles and Herb Gintis, eds., Recasting Egalitarianism: New Rules for Communities, States and Markets (vol. 3)