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Strong Democracy:

Participatory Politics for a New Age
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University of California Press, 2003 - History - 320 pages
Since its appearance twenty years ago, Benjamin R. Barber's Strong Democracy has been one of the primary standards against which political science thinking and writing is measured. Defined as the participation of all of the people in at least some aspects of self-government at least some of the time, Strong Democracy offers liberal society a new way of thinking about and of practicing democracy. Contrary to the commonly held view that an excess of democracy can undo liberal institutions, Barber argues that an excess of liberalism has undermined our democratic institutions and brought about the set of crises we still find ourselves struggling against: cynicism about voting, alienation, privatization, and the growing paralysis of public institutions. In a new preface Barber looks at the past twenty years and restates his argument, which seems, sadly, more pressing than ever.
  

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Although I fundamentally disagree with Barber's conclusions, he makes a pretty strong case as for why we need to return to a communitarian lifestyle and re-embrace democracy, and why a sense of civic ... Read full review

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Contents

Thin Democracy Politics as Zookeeping
3
The Preconceptual Frame Newtonian Politics
26
The Epistemological Frame Cartesian Politics
46
The Psychological Frame Apolitical Man
67
Thin Democracy in the Twentieth Century The Potential for Pathology
93
Strong Democracy The Argument for Citizenship
115
Strong Democracy Politics as a Way of Living
117
A Conceptual Frame Politics in the Participatory Mode
139
Citizenship and Participation Politics as Epistemology
163
Citizenship and Community Politics as Social Being
213
The Real Present Institutionalizing Strong Democracy in the Modern World
261
Index
313
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About the author (2003)

Benjamin R. Barber is Kekst Professor of Civil Society at the University of Maryland and Director of the New York office of The Democracy Collaborative. He is the author of Fear's Empire: Terrorism, War and Democracy (2003) and Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism Are Reshaping the World (1995).

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TitleStrong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age
AuthorBenjamin R. Barber
Edition20
PublisherUniversity of California Press, 2003
ISBN0520242335, 9780520242333
Length320 pages
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