Prospects for a New Society
Dimitrios Roussopoulos, C.George Benello, editors
A way of looking at politics from which a stronger democratic practice might emerge.
A completely revised edition of the classic and widely consulted 1970 version
First published as a testament to the legacy of the concept made popular by the New Left of the 1960s, and with the perspective of the intervening decades, this book opens up the way for re-examining just what our role must be in the cause of democracy. With its emphasis on citizen participation, here, presented in one volume are twenty or more of the best arguments for participatory democracy written by some of the most relevant contributors to the debate, both in an historic, and in a contemporary, sense.
This wide-ranging collection probes the historical roots of participatory democracy in our political culture, analyzes its application to the problems of modern society, and explores the possible forms it might take in future on every level of society from the work place, to the community, to the nation at large.
The book is, by all odds, the most encompassing one so far in revealing the practical actual subversions that the New Left wishes to visit upon us.-- Washington Post
Apart from the editors, contributors include: George Woodcock, Murray Bookchin, Don Calhoun, Stewart Perry, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, James Gillespis, Gerry Hunnius, John McEwan, Arthur Chickering, Christian Bay, Martin Oppenheimer, Colin Ward
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Dimitrios Roussopoulos is a political economist who has written many articles and books on social and politico-economic issues. He is the author of many books including The Public Place and Dissidence: Essays Against the Mainstream. He continues to work for local democracy, ecological cities and world peace.
C.George Benello taught sociology at Goddard College in Vermont until his untimely death, He was also a Fellow of the Cambridge Institute and author of From the Ground Up: Essays on Grassroots and Workplace Democracy.
380 pages, 6x9, bibliography, index Paperback ISBN: 1-55164-224-7 $24.99 Hardcover ISBN: 1-55164-225-5 $53.99
Cultural Studies / Political Science & Government
June 2003