TY  - BOOK
AU  - Della Porta,Donatella
TI  - Democracy in social movements
SN  - 0230218830
AV  - HM881 .D46 2009
U1  - 303.484 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Basingstoke, Hampshire
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Social movements
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Anti-globalization movement
KW  - Democracy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-295) and index; Organizational structures and visions of democracy in the global justice movement : an introduction / Donatella della Porta -- Global justice movement organizations : the organizational population / Donatella della Porta -- Participatory traditions within the global justice movement / Herbert Reiter -- Consensus in movements / Donatella della Porta -- Social movements and multilevel governance : the external dimension of democracy / Donatella della Porta -- Why are social movement organizations deliberative? Structural and cultural determinants of internal decision making in the global justice movement / Marco Giugni and Alessandro Nai -- Organizational size and democratic practices : can large be beautiful? / Clare Saunders -- Forms of action of global justice movement groups : do conceptions and practices of democracy matter? / Dieter Rucht and Simon Teune -- Unconventional politics online : internet and the global justice movement / Lorenzo Mosca and Donatella della Porta -- The generational issue : the impact of organizations' age on visions of democracy / Hélène Combes, Nicolas Haeringer and Isabelle Sommier -- Crossing borders : transnational activism in European social movements / Mario Pianta, Raffaele Marchetti, and Duccio Zola -- Democracy in movement : some conclusions / Donatella della Porta
N2  - 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
ER  -