[Download free ebook] Democracy as Problem Solving: Civic Capacity in Communities Across the Globe (MIT Press)
❀ Xavier de Souza Briggs ❀
| #804138 in Books | 2008-07-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.75 x6.00l,1.11 | File Name: 0262524856 | 388 pages
||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| 5 for Academics, 4 for Isolation from Corruption|By Robert David STEELE Vivas|I am stunned to not see a review of this book published in 2008. It certainly merits attention and inclusion in any dialog about democracy.
The author caught my attention immediately in the preface, observing that US democracy "looks awfully stunted and stymied."
The author doe|||If John Dewey, the seminal twentieth-century theorist of democracy as the praxis of community problem-solving, returned to commission case studies about how democracy might work in the twenty-first century, he would be pleased with this important new book. R
Case studies from around the world and theoretical discussion show how the capacity to act collectively on local problems can be developed, strengthening democracy while changing social and economic outcomes.
Complexity, division, mistrust, and "process paralysis" can thwart leaders and others when they tackle local challenges. In Democracy as Problem Solving, Xavier de Souza Briggs shows how civic capacity -- the capacity to create and sustain sm...
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