TY - BOOK AU - Carter,April TI - Direct action and democracy today SN - 0745629350 AV - JC 328.3 C323d 2005 PY - 2005/// CY - Cambridge PB - Polity Press KW - Direct action KW - Political participation N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Direct action : past and present -- pt. 1. Liberal states, global neoliberalism and issues of power. Violence, nonviolence and power : is liberal democracy nonviolent? ; Democratic deficit, civil society and social movements : the role for direct action ; Economic globalization and democratic deficit : the role of global resistance -- pt. 2. Democratic theory and the role of direct action. Liberal democratic theory, direct action and globalization ; Participatory democracy and direct action : republicanism, deliberative democracy and critiques ; Socialism, cosmopolitanism and direct democracy ; Democratic arguments for direct action ER -