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978-1-78660-364-7 • Hardback • August 2017 • $146.00 • (£112.00)
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Bernd Reiter is a Professor of Political Science in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies at the University of South Florida.
Acknowledgements / Introduction / 1: Preparing the Ground / Part I: Theory / 2.Beyond Political Representation / 3. Beyond Capitalism / Part II: Empirical Cases / 4. Classic and Medieval Cases / 5. Anarchism / 6. Religious Communities and Intentional Communities / 7. Native American and Indigenous Communities / 8. Contemporary Western Cases / PART III: Analysis and Synthesis / 9. Learning and Comparing / Appendix/ Bibliography
This is a provocative and wide-ranging meditation on a vital question: What would a society that embodied the vision of the left actually look like? To imagine that future, Bernd Reiter turns to the past, examining twenty-two cases where citizens were able to achieve levels of self-governance and equality that are very far from the reality in today’s elite-dominated societies.
— Jacob S. Hacker, Professor of Political Science. Yale University; co-author of “Winner-Take-All Politics” and “American Amnesia"