Contents
Notes on the Contributors
Preface to the New Edition
PART I COMPONENTS OF A NEW SOCIETY
by Dimitrios Roussopoulos, C. George Benello
Democracy, Heretical and Radical
by George Woodcock
The Human Material
by Don Calhoun
Group Organization and Socio-Political Structure
by C. George Benello
A Note on the Genesis of the Community Development Corporation
by Stewart E. Perry
Some Social Issues in the Community Development Corporation Proposal
by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Toward Freedom in Work
by James Gillespie
Toward a Liberatory Technology
by Murray Bookchin
The Yugoslav System of Decentralization and Self-Management
by Gerry Hunnius
The Cybernetics of Self-Organizing Systems
by John D. McEwan
Organization, Conflict, and Free Association
by C. George Benello
How Many Make Too Many?
by Arthur W. Chickering
The Forms of Freedom
by Murray Bookchin
Freedom as a Tool of Oppression
by Christian Bay
The Limitations of Socialism
by Martin Oppenheimer
The Anarchist Contribution
by Colin Ward
PART II THE POLITICS OF PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY
Introduction
by Dimitrios Roussopoulos
The Case of Porto Alegre: The Politics and Background
by Sergio Baierle
The Case of Porto Alegre: The Participatory Budget
by Anne Latendresse
The Case of Montreal
by Dimitrios Roussopoulos
New Urban Economy: The Basis for Democracy
by Bartha Rodin
Every Cook Can Govern: A Study of Democracy in Ancient Greece
by C.L.R. James