Michele Sorice, Partecipazione democratica. Teorie e problemi [Democratic Participation. Theories and Problems], Mondadori, Milano, 2019, ISBN 978-88-6184-706-4, pp. 162.

摘要

During 1990s democracy was the focus of an unprecedented volume of literaturemotivated by boundless faith in its expansion and progression. In the last decade academics proved to have the same verbosity about the current crisis of democracy. Thisdemonstrates that democracy is a never-ending process, that requires a continuousanalysis on both a theoretical and empirical level. These latter dimensions are closelyintertwined in the analysis on political participation provided by Michele Sorice in Partecipazione Democratica. Published in the series Lessico Democratico, Sorice’s volumeaims to enlighten the experiences that break the anesthetized framework of the traditional participation in Western democracy. The work has the remarkable merit to highlight the plurality of forms of democratic involvement and the creative richness of participatory practices which lie outside the liberal participation’s channel of election. Indeed, Sorice seeks to interpret the political participation beyond parties and institutions in the light of the deliberative-participatory paradigm, by which the whole bookhas to be read.