TY - JOUR
T1 - Mending Democracy
T2 - A response to our readers
AU - Boswell, John
AU - Ercan, Selen A.
AU - Hendriks, Carolyn M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - In this piece we respond to three commentators of our book, Mending Democracy, and emphasize the ways the book seeks to contribute to the theory and practice of democracy. We reflect on the possibilities and limits of democratic mending in societies characterised by economic inequality and asymmetric power relations, as well as in countries with less established institutions of liberal democracy. We draw attention to the agency and creativity of ordinary people in advancing meaningful democratic reform even under less favourable conditions, and in unlikely places.
AB - In this piece we respond to three commentators of our book, Mending Democracy, and emphasize the ways the book seeks to contribute to the theory and practice of democracy. We reflect on the possibilities and limits of democratic mending in societies characterised by economic inequality and asymmetric power relations, as well as in countries with less established institutions of liberal democracy. We draw attention to the agency and creativity of ordinary people in advancing meaningful democratic reform even under less favourable conditions, and in unlikely places.
KW - Deliberative democracy
KW - democracy
KW - democratic reform
KW - interpretive methods
KW - mending
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85124103532&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/19460171.2022.2028644
DO - 10.1080/19460171.2022.2028644
M3 - Article
SN - 1946-0171
VL - 16
SP - 237
EP - 240
JO - Critical Policy Studies
JF - Critical Policy Studies
IS - 2
ER -