(Library ebook) Democracy as Problem Solving: Civic Capacity in Communities Across the Globe (MIT Press)
☆ Xavier de Souza Briggs ☆
| #1303438 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
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 smart collective action -- can be developed and used. In an era of sharp debate over the conditions under which democracy can develop while broadening participation and building community, Briggs argues that understanding a...
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