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18 - New forms of participation and social movements

from Part IV - Participation and Representation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

Rodney Smith
Affiliation:
University of Sydney
Ariadne Vromen
Affiliation:
University of Sydney
Ian Cook
Affiliation:
Murdoch University, Western Australia
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Summary

This chapter argues that the ways in which individual citizens engage with politics are changing. It is different to the three previous chapters in this section, as it focuses on individual and thus behavioural change (see Chapter 3), not on how institutions mediate the relationship between the state and society. The chapter argues that broadening our understanding of democracy (see Chapter 1) to focus on both individuals and social movements helps us to engage critically with how politics can be more responsive to the political views and experiences of citizens. As in the last chapter, critical theorists might ask whether this shift results in fundamental socio-economic changes (Chapter 4). To the extent that this broadening of participation might also be the result of, or produce, new discourses of politics, it will be of interest to discourse theorists and post-structuralists (Chapter 5).

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Contemporary Politics in Australia
Theories, Practices and Issues
, pp. 199 - 210
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2012

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References

Dalton, R 2008 Citizen politics CQ Press Washington, DC
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Wilson, S Meagher, G Gibson, R Denemark, D Western, M 2005 Australian social attitudes: the first report UNSW Press Sydney

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