Democracy Beyond the Nation State: Practicing Equality

by Joe Parker

Book Overview

Democracy promises rule by all, not by the few. Yet, electoral democracies limit decision-making to representatives and have always had a weakness for inequality. How might democracy serve all rather than the few?

Democracy Beyond the Nation State: Practicing Equality examines communities that govern their own lives without elites or centralized structures through assemblies and consensus. Rather than claiming equality by abstract...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367242907
• ISBN13: 9780367242909
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"