Rethinking Civic Participation in Democratic Theory and Practice

• Main Author: Dacombe, Rod (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: The Theories, Concepts and Practices of Democracy
• Subjects: Democracy.; Great Britain-Politics and government.; Political economy.; Political sociology.; British Politics.; International Political Economy.; Political Sociology.

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...

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.