• DOI:10.1177/030981680508600114
• Corpus ID: 21296723

Deepening Democracy: Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance

@article{Fung2003DeepeningDI,
  title={Deepening Democracy: Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance},
  author={Archon Fung and Erik Olin Wright and Rebecca Neaera Abers},
  journal={Capital \& Class},
  year={2003},
  volume={29},
  pages={182 - 184}
}

• Archon Fung, E. O. Wright, R. Abers
• Published 1 March 2003
• Political Science
• Capital & Class

The institutional forms of liberal democracy developed in the nineteenth century seem increasingly ill-suited to the problems we face in the twenty-first. This dilemma has given rise in some places to a new, deliberative democracy, and this volume explores four contemporary empirical cases in which the principles of such a democracy have been at least partially instituted: the participatory budget in Porto Alegre; the school decentralization councils and community policing councils in Chicago; stakeholder councils in environmental protection and habitat management; and new decentralised governance structures in Kerala. In keeping with the other Real Utopias Project volumes, these case studies are framed by an editors' introduction, a set of commentaries, and concluding notes.