TY  - BOOK
AU  - Asimakopoulos,John
TI  - Social Structures of Direct Democracy: On the Political Economy of Equality
T2  - Studies in Critical Social Sciences Series
SN  - 9789004262751
AV  - JC423.A775 2014eb 
U1  - 321.8 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Direct democracy
KW  - Equality
KW  - Social structure
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Social Structures of Direct Democracy -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Theory, Praxis, and Change -- The Ragged Edge of Anarchy: Direct Democracy -- Mutualism -- Collectivism -- Communist Anarchism -- Conflict Theory -- Why Capitalism Must Always Collapse -- The Relationship between Change and Radicalism -- Structural Limitations to Change -- Insurrection versus Revolution -- A Case Study in Political Revolution: Egypt -- Does Direct Democracy Require Small-scale Societies? -- McDonald's Iron Cage -- 2 Relations of Authority -- The Fraud of Representative Democracy -- The Best Democracy Money Can Buy -- Stealing Democracy Old School -- Political Parties -- A Path to Direct Democracy -- Economic Authority -- Political Authority -- Constitution -- 3 Material Relations -- Economic Utilities of Direct Democracy -- Markets and Prices -- Currency, Income, Banking, and Credit -- Profit and Worker-owned Firms -- Authority over Productive Property -- Innovation and Small Business -- Relations of Consumption -- Income Distribution -- Regulated Labor Markets: Hiring Halls -- Distribution of Productive Property -- Resource Use -- What to Produce -- How to Produce -- Can the System Adapt? -- 4 Social Structure -- Culture and Social Integration -- Organizing Principles of Social Structure -- Social Statuses -- Social Roles -- Virtual Worlds -- Institutions and Socialization -- Religion -- Family and Sexuality -- Education -- The Means of Violence -- Compulsion and Discipline -- Journalism -- The Social Network: The Future that Can be Now -- Conclusion: No Islands of Egalitarianism in a Sea of Inequality -- Afterword: What Can Grow in the Graveyard for Orthodoxies? -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - In Social Structures of Direct Democracy John Asimakopoulos develops a political economy of structural equality making strong empirical arguments for radical transformation toward direct democracy by filling positions of political and economic authority with randomly selected citizens
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