Rethinking Civic Participation in Democratic Theory and Practice

This book makes an important contribution to contemporary debates over the place of civic participation in democratic theory and practice. Drawing on a detailed case study of the Blackbird Leys area of Oxford, the book employs a novel empirical approach to ask whether widespread participation in civ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dacombe, Rod (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:The Theories, Concepts and Practices of Democracy
Subjects:
Democracy.
Great Britain-Politics and government.
Political economy.
Political sociology.
ISBN:9781137588258
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The problem with civic participation
  • 2. Neighbourhood poverty and the democracy of association
  • 3. Participation and democracy in policy and practice
  • 4. Civic life in Blackbird Leys
  • 5. Civic participation, formal politics and the democratic underground
  • 6. Community structure, participation and stability
  • 7. Networks, reciprocity and trust
  • 8. Does deprivation really work against participation?
  • 9. Responding to democracy's critics.

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