Democratizing Inequalities by Caroline W. Lee PAPERBACK 9781479883363

Democratizing InequalitiesDilemmas of the New Public Participation\nAuthor(s): Caroline W. Lee, Michael McQuarrie, Edward T. Walker, Craig Calhoun\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9781479883363, 978-1479883363\nSynopsis\nOpportunities to \""have your say,\"" \""get involved,\"" and \""join the\n conversation\"" are everywhere in public life. From crowdsourcing and town hall\n meetings to government experiments with social media, participatory politics increasingly\n seem like a revolutionary antidote to the decline of civic engagement and the\n thinning of the contemporary public sphere. Many argue that, with new\n technologies, flexible organizational cultures, and a supportive policymaking\n context, we now hold the keys to large-scale democratic revitalization.\n Democratizing Inequalities shows that the equation may not be so\n simple. Modern societies face a variety of structural problems that limit\n.