In the current issue of Governance, Robert Chaskin reviews Do-It-Yourself Democracy by Caroline W. Lee. Lee’s analysis is “unsettling,” Chaskin says, showing how deliberative processes can be designed “in ways that legitimize cost cutting and retrenchment and that promote participant alignment with state or corporate requirements for austerity. Read the review. And Scott Fritzen reviews Smart Citizens, Smarter State by Beth Simone Noveck. The book […]
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