Mobilizing for democracy [electronic resource] : citizen action and the politics of public participation / edited by Vera Schattan P. Coelho and Bettina Von Lieres.

Mobilizing for democracy [electronic resource] : citizen action and the politics of public participation / edited by Vera Schattan P. Coelho and Bettina Von Lieres.

9781848134454 (hbk.)
1848134452 (hbk.)
1848134460 (pbk.)
9781848134461 (pbk.)
9781848134478 (e-book)
1848134479 (e-book)
9781848131255 (e-book)

London ; New York : Zed Books, 2010.

English

xvi, 287 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.

JF799 .M63 2010eb

323.042

Using new empirical case studies from around the world, this book illustrates how alternative forms of political mobilization - protests, social participation, activism, litigation & lobbying - engage with the formal institutions of representative democracy in ways that constitute the very essence of democratic politics.

Using new empirical case studies from around the world, this book illustrates how alternative forms of political mobilization - protests, social participation, activism, litigation & lobbying - engage with the formal institutions of representative democracy in ways that constitute the very essence of democratic politics.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 268-279) and index.

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