Democratic Phoenix
Subtitle: Reinventing Political Activism
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 2, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780521010535
Subjects: Political activism; Political economy; Political parties; Political Process - Elections; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Social movements; Politics/International Relations; Pressure groups; History & Theory - General; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Political Science / General; Political Science / History & Theory; Political Science : Political Ideologies - Democracy; Political Science : Political Process - Elections; Elections; Political participation
First sentence: The conventional wisdom suggests that in the late twentieth century many postindustrial societies experienced a tidal wave of citizen withdrawal from the traditional channels of political participation.