Paul Lucardie: 2 books
Democratic Extremism in Theory and Practice
All Power to the People
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Democracy and extremism are usually considered as opposites. We assume that our system (in the UK, the USA, the Netherlands etc.) is democratic, and extremists try to destroy our system and introduce some kind of dictatorship, if not chaos and anarchy. Yet in many cases, the extremists seem sincere...
Green Parties in Transition
The End of Grass-roots Democracy?
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
When green parties emerged in the 1980s, not only did they question established ideas about nature and economic growth, they also challenged the 'iron law' of Roberto Michels that all parties inevitably follow a similar path towards informal concentration of power and oligarchy. Grass-roots democracy...