… democracy manifests itself in the digital age. As it is a fundamentally social concept, democracy,
… new technologies affect political society at the local level in Europe and North America. …

… participatory experiments aid in deepening democracy in some cities but not in others? The
recent boom of studies on participatory local democracy in Latin America has yet to produce …

… policies at the local, state, and national level have damaged local community life in the … only
undermine America's long-term economic health, they weaken the basis of local democracy. …

… Towards a strategy for local democracy What, then, do the contributions to this volume
suggest are the key pressures on local democracy resulting from forces of globalisation? Three …

… This book examines the local democracy dimension of globalism. It does not offer a global
analysis - rather, it examines the globalisation process as it affects North America and Europe. …

… One issue of concern in Western Europe and North America (and some other places) is the
… However, the logic behind calls for decentralisation and local democracy, drawn out in this …

… to the crisis of local government and democracy. It takes … that democracy matters and that
local democracy has many … of local government also dominates thinking in North America…

… active democratic participation possible while making others more difficult. Local Democracy
Under Siege suggests how we can account for the current limitations of US democracy and …

… of local democracy and local government. I argue that American theories of local democracy
… with participation and local government as a vehicle for democratic decision-making. British …

… sustain local democracy we need a model of democratic government and an idea of the kind
of social and economic context that is supportive of democracy. Local democracy requires a …