Making Democracy Work Better: Mediating Structures, Social Capital and the Democratic Prospect

by Catherine S . Guthrie (Author), RichardA.Couto (Author)

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  Paperback
  1999

  $69.50

  A discussion of the savage side of market capitalism in Appalachia and the social, political and economic roles that mediating structures play in mitigating it. It profiles the work of 23 such structures and distils the practical lessons to be found in their successes and shortcomings.