Democracy in Social Movements [Hardcover]

This collection?explores?conceptions and practices of democracy of social movement organizations involved in global protest. Focusing on the global justice movement this book shows how they adopt radical new democratic approaches and thus provide a fundamental critique of conventional politics.List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgments Notes on the Contributors Organizational Structures and Visions of Democracy in the Global Justice Movement: An Introduction;? D.della Porta Global Justice Movement Organizations: The Organizational Population;? D.della Porta Participatory Traditions within the Global Justice Movement; H.Reiter Consensus in Movements;? D.della Porta Social Movements and Multilevel Governance: The External Dimension of Democracy; D.della Porta Why Are Social Movement Organizations Deliberative? Structural and Cultural Determinants of Internal Decision Making in the Global Justice Movement;? M.Giugni ?& A.Nai Organizational Size and Democratic Practices: Can Large Be Beautiful?;? C.Saunders Forms of Action of Global Justice Movement Groups: Do Conceptions and Practices of Democracy Matter?;? D.Rucht & S.Teune Unconventional Politics Online: Internet and the Global Justice Movement;? L.Mosca ?& D.della Porta The Generational Issue: The Impact of Organizations' Age on Visions of Democracy;? H.Combes, N.Haeringer & ?I.Sommier Crossing Borders: Transnational Activism in European Social Movements; M.Pianta, R.Marchetti & ?D.Zola Democracy in Movement: Some Conclusions; D.della Porta References Index

'Della Porta's new edited book, the culmination of years of group effort, shows that there is no contradiction between collaborative research and thematic closure, or between culturally-inspired and empirically executed work. Democracy in Social Movements eloquently shows how, from many different sources and with different ideological origins, the Global Justice Movement has painstakingly developed a method of internal consensus- blS(