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Frances Moore Lappé's newest contribution to the debate over public policy and political reform is spare, well-argued, and supported by both anecdotal and scholarly evidence. In it, she rejects the model (called "thin democracy") which in essence consists of free elections plus a capitalist marketplace, in favor of "living democracy," which employs a more positive view of human potential and the world's resources.
If this were all that [Frances Moore Lappe] had to say, I would argue that her contribution was not a major one. Political dieorist Benjamin Barber (whom she cites), for example, argued persuasively almost two decades ago for what he terms "strong democracy," though as an academic he reached a different audience than Lappe's. Ted Becker and Christa Skton have done similar breakthrough analyses of experiments in "teledemocracy" in Hawai'i. And Green Parties, among others, have argued (mosdy in vain) for a genuinely ecological approach to nature as well as to politics - a perspective that Lappé shares.See the full content of this document
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Creating Living Democracies
Creating Living Democracies
Facing Fear, Engaging Conflicts, Building CommunitiesFrances Moore Lappé's newest contribution to the debate over public policy and political reform is spare,...See the full content of this document
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