How Social Movements Can Save Democracy

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Donatella della Porta. How Social Movements Can Save Democracy

CONTENTS

Guide

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How Social Movements Can Save Democracy. Democratic Innovations from Below

Dedication

Acknowledgements

1 Democratic Innovations and Social Movements

Democratic challenges in the Great Recession

Progressive social movements as sites for innovation

This volume

2 Crowd-Sourced Constitutionalism: Social Movements in the Constitutional Process

Iceland in the crisis

The crisis

Mobilizing for change

The crowd-sourced constitutional process

Expanding the analysis: the Irish deliberative constitutional process

Concluding remarks

3 Referendums from Below: Direct Democracy and Social Movements

‘Water is not for sale’: direct democracy against the privatization of water supply

Appropriating opportunities through referendum

Referendums within contentious campaigns

Framing the right to water

Beyond the referendum: long-term empowerment

Expanding the analysis from a comparative perspective: referendums in Scotland and Catalonia

Concluding remarks

4 Movement Parties in the Great Recession

Podemos as a movement party

The many crises: challenges and opportunities

Mobilizing resources

Framing alternatives

The movement and the party

Developing a comparison: MAS in Bolivia

Appropriating opportunities: the neoliberal juncture and party politics

Organizational mobilization

Framing alternatives

Conclusion

5 Progressive Movements and Democratic Innovations: Some Conclusions

Innovating from below

Conditions and limits for democratic innovations

Democracy and the populist Right

Democratic innovations as social movement outcomes

Institutional change in empirical theories of democracy

Innovations in intense times: the way forward

Bibliography

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Donatella della Porta

Looking at some of these attempts, with a critical view aimed also at singling out existing limits and conditions for improvement, is my purpose. In this sense, this volume can be seen as building upon and developing some of my previous contributions on related issues: first and foremost in Can Democracy Be Saved? (Polity 2013) and Social Movements in Times of Austerity: Bringing Capitalism Back into Protest Analysis (Polity 2015), but also in Movement Parties against Austerity (Polity 2017), Late Neoliberalism and its Discontents in the Economic Crisis: Comparing Social Movements in the European Periphery (Palgrave Macmillan 2016) and Social Movements and Referendums from Below: Direct Democracy in the Neoliberal Crisis (Policy 2017).

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Research on knowledge-practices within social movements singled out a broad range, moving:

from things we are more classically trained to define as knowledge, such as practices that engage and run parallel to the knowledge of scientists or policy experts, to micro-political and cultural interventions that have more to do with ‘know-how’ or the ‘cognitive praxis that informs all social activity’ and which vie with the most basic social institutions that teach us how to be in the world. (Casas-Cortés et al. 2008, 21)

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