Local Democracy Under Siege: Activism, Public Interests and Private Politics

by Catherine A . Lutz (Author), Lesley Bartlett (Author), Dorothy Holland (Author), Donald M . Nonini (Author), Marla Frederick - Mc Glathery (Author), ThaddeusCountwayGuldbrandsen (Author), EnriqueG.Murillo (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2007

  $108.24

  Suggests how we can account for the limitations of US democracy and how remedies can be created that ensure more meaningful participation by a greater range of people.

• New

  Paperback
  2007

  $36.56

  What is the state of democracy at the turn of the twenty-first century? To answer this question, seven scholars lived for a year in five North Carolina communities. This book illustrates how the social and economic changes of the last three decades have made new routes to active democratic participation possible while making others more difficult.