K. Sabeel Rahman

Civic Power (eBook, ePUB)

Rebuilding American Democracy in an Era of Crisis

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What will it take to restore American democracy and rescue it from this moment of crisis? Civic Power argues that the current threat to US democracy is rooted not just in the outcome of the 2016 election, but in deeper, systemic forms of inequality that concentrate economic and political power in the hands of the few at the expense of the many. Drawing on historical and social science research and case studies of contemporary democratic innovations across the country, Civic Power calls for a broader approach to democracy reform focused on meaningfully redistributing power to citizens. It advocates for both reviving grassroots civil society and novel approaches to governance, policymaking, civic technology, and institutional design - aimed at dismantling structural disparities to build a more inclusive, empowered, bottom-up democracy, where communities and people have greater voice, power, and agency.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108386609
• Artikelnr.: 62738312

Autorenporträt

K. Sabeel Rahman is the President of Demos, a think-and-do tank committed to building a more inclusive and equitable democracy and economy. He is also an Associate Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, where he teaches constitutional law and administrative law. Rahman is a leading scholar of democracy, law, and inequality, and is the author of Democracy against Domination (2016), which won the American Political Science Association's Dahl Award.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Democracy in crisis
Part I. Civic Power through Organizing: 2. Democracy and inequality as a function of the balance of power
3. Organizing for power
Part II. Civic Power through Governance: 4. From governance to power - rethinking democracy reform
5. Bureaucratizing participation
6. Power-oriented policy design
7. Conclusion - democracy's future
Bibliography.