Democracy Works

Part I Examining Theory, History, Methodology, and Action; Chapter 1 Using Democracy to Promote a Historical Transition Today, Torry D. Dickinson; Chapter 2 Part Icipatory Action-Research, Inclusiveness, and Empowering Community Action at the Western Institute for Social Research, John Bilorusky, Terry Lunsford, Cynthia Lawrence; Chapter 3 Deliberative Democracy as a Foundation for Sustainable Social Change, Donna C. Schenck-Hamlin, Timothy R. Steffensmeier, William J. Schenck-Hamlin; Chapter 4 The Power of One: Democracy and the Fear of Freedom as Political Paradigm, Prabha Manuratne, Buddhika Bandara; Part II Changing the Intersecting Global Institutions of Firm, Market, State, Household, "Race," Class, Gender/Sexuality/Age, and Global South/North; Chapter 5 Abolishing the Death Penalty, Abolishing Prisons, Mechthild Nagel; Chapter 6 Defining Nonviolence as a Language and Strategy, Susan L. Allen; Chapter 7 Women's Civil-Societal Movements for Peace in Chechnya and Russia, Ekaterina Romanova; Chapter 8 Becoming an Activist for Global Gender Change, Christopher E. Renner; Chapter 9 "Comercio con Justicia" and Theory in Action at a Guatemalan Women's Textile Cooperative, Summer B.C. Lewis, Kendra Staley; Chapter 10 The Corporatization of Fair Trade, Small Farmers, Alienated Consumers, and Social Movements, Rink Dickinson; Part III Rebuilding Civil Society, Reclaiming the Civil Commons; Chapter 11 Women Take the Lead: Changing Global Economics with Grassroots Cooperatives, Joyce Rothschild; Chapter 12 Education for Life at Danish Folk Schools and Highlander, Marilyn Jackson; Chapter 13 Addressing Global Water Issues Together, Terrie A. Becerra; Chapter 14 Building Feminism, Redesigning Water Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa, Leticia Nkonya; Chapter 15 "Have I Got an Ethic for You!": Ecofeminism as the Heart of Progressive Environmental Action, Valerie Carroll; Chapter 16 The Evolution of an Agricultural-Environmental Ethic, Dan Nagengast; Chapter 17 Social Change through Sustainable Agriculture and Sustainable Consumers, Rhonda R. Janke; Chapter 18 The Small Farmers' Movement of Cajibio, Colombia, and the Central New York Sister-City Partnership, Colleen Kattau; Part IV Changing Intersecting Institutions, Reinventing Society; Chapter 19 Praxis Reinvents Education, Democracy, and Society, Torry D. Dickinson;