Community wealth building and the reconstruction of American democracy : can we make American democracy work? /: can we make American democracy work?. ([2020])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Melody C. Barnes (co-director of the Democracy Initiative, Dorothy Danforth Compton Professor and professor of practice in the Miller Center of Public Affairs, and a distinguished fellow in the School of Law at the University of Virginia), Corey D.B. Walker (Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities, Wake Forest University) and Thad M. Williamson (associate professor of leadership studies and philosophy, politics, economics and law, University of Richmond, US).
• Editors: Barnes, Melody C; Walker, Corey D. B; Williamson, Thad M
• Other Names: Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.
• Contents: Part I: Community wealth building and the promise of democratic reconstruction -- 1 Introduction: Can we make American democracy work? / Melody C. Barnes, Corey D.B. Walker and Thad M. Williamson -- 2 becoming the American community we should be--but have never been / Melody C. Barnes and Thad M. Williamson -- Part II: Racial justice and American democracy -- 3 repairing American democracy? / Lawrie Balfour -- 4 paidea, politics, and the people: Deep democracy and the new urban commons / Corey D.B. Walker -- Part III: Political economy and community wealth building -- 5 capitalism and the future of democracy / Isabel Sawhill -- 6 community wealth building: Lessons from Italy / Margaret Kohn -- 7 a place to call home? Property, freedom, and the commonwealth richard dagger Part IV: The politics of democratic reform 8 achieving accountability--or not--in contemporary times 132 kenneth p. Ruscio 9 ranking ballots and policy juries: Institutional reforms in america / Jason S. Maloy 10 Gendered (and racialized) partisan polarization / Nicholas J.G. Winter -- 11 "many new barriers": Democracy and resistance to the voting rights act of 1965 / Julian Maxwell Hayter -- Part V: Toward a practical politics of community wealth building -- 12 targeted universalism in urban communities: Racial discourse and policy rhetoric as harmony / Ravi K. Perry -- 13 identifying structural racism as a barrier to community wealth building / Risha R. Berry -- The university as anchor institution in community wealth building: Snapshots from two virginia universities / Barbara Brown Wilson and Meghan Z. Gough -- 15 Conclusion: The promise of 21st-century democratic renewal / Corey D.B. Walker and Thad M. Williamson -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Cheltenham, UK Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (296 pages)
• Subjects: 307.14; Community development; Democracy -- United States; Community development; Democracy; Politics and government; United States -- Politics and government; United States; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1839108134; 9781839108136
• Notes: Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 23, 2020).
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