Mending democracies, patching societies

Tamara Metze

doi:10.1080/19460171.2022.2029520

Mending democracies, patching societies

Tamara Metze^*

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Abstract

When our democracies are broken, we need to ‘fix’ our societies. There are no quick fixes, but the good news is that society is resilient and people will make new connections. We need to look better for those ‘small democratic wins’ and learn from them to improve our democratic systems. This seems to be the core message of the book ‘Mending Democracies’, that sits within a critical pragmatist approach and starts from the analysis of democratic deficits to offer new language and insights to understand societal resilience to repair institutional wrong-doings..

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	224-228
Journal	Critical Policy Studies
Volume	16
Issue number	2
Early online date	31 Jan 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2022.2029520
Publication status	Published - 2 May 2022

Keywords

Deliberative democracy
democratic mending
policy work
small wins

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