Street-Level Democracy: Political Settings at the Margins of Global Power
by Jonathan Barker
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Using colourful and detailed case material, Street-Level Democracy introduces a new method of researching everyday politics. It is a wide-ranging book that traces the conflicts between global power and local action. People in farming communities, town mosques, city markets, and fishing communities suffer the effects of wrenching change, but live far from the centres of power. From Britain and small-town USA to Nigeria, India, and Nicaragua, citizens everywhere grapple with the politics of show more everyday life. show lessTags
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Jonathan Barker taught political science at the University of Toronto for many years; he has also taught at the University of Dar es Salaam and the University of Arizona.
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- Nonfiction, Politics and Government, Economics, Sociology
- DDC/MDS
- 306.2 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social Behavior - Dating, Marriage, Divorce Political institutions
- LCC
- JF60 .B38 — Political Science Political institutions and public administration Political institutions and public administration General. Comparative government
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