Reviews: Empowered Participation: Reinventing Urban Democracy, Globalization and Social Change: People and Places in a Divided World, Global Matrix: Nationalism, Globalism and State-Terrorism, Political Virtue and Shopping: Individuals, Consumerism and Collective Action, Why Deliberative Democracy?, Thailand at the Margins: Internationalization of the State and the Transformation of Labour, the Personal and the Political: How Personal Welfare State Experiences Affect Political Trust and Ideology