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Item Details
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POWER AND EMPOWERMENT
A RADICAL THEORY OF PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY |
| By: |
Peter Bachrach, Aryeh Botwinick |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£27.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0877229392 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780877229391 |
| Publisher: |
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS,U.S. |
| Pub. date: |
1 May, 1992 |
| Pages: |
216 |
| Description: |
Contends that working-class struggle should be encouraged as a way of promoting the realignment of political parties along class lines and expanding citizen participation and public awareness of issues of national concern. This work describes and evaluates worker self-management programs in Germany, Sweden, France, Italy, England, and US. |
| Synopsis: |
What role should political theory play in activating workers to engage in class struggle to extend participatory rights in the workplace and, in the process, expand and revitalize American democracy? Bachrach and Botwinick argue that the answer is to construct a theory of participatory democracy that would include a democratic concept of class struggle; a concept that provides workers and their allies an effective and legitimate course of political action. They see this concept not only as a means to encourage workers to become politically active to gain participatory rights, but also as a means to strengthen the democratic process as a whole. The authors contend that working-class struggle should be encouraged as a way of promoting the realignment of political parties along class lines and expanding citizen participation and public awareness of issues of national concern. To illustrate their theory, the authors describe and evaluate worker self-management programs in Germany, Sweden, France, Italy, England, and the United States.Hoping to spur Americans to confront their crisis of democracy with boldness and imagination, Bachrach and Botwinick demonstrate that class politics is on the agenda and that the categories of class and class struggle are now up for democratic definition in a way that is unique in this country. Peter Bachrach is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Temple University. Aryeh Botwinick is Professor of Political Science at Temple University and the author of Skepticism and Political Participation (Temple). |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Temple University Press,U.S. |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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