An ancient answer to the timeless question of how best to choose our lawmakers
John Gastil holds a joint appointment as Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences and Professor of Political Science at Penn State University. He is the author of Democracy in Small Groups and By Popular Demand. Erik Olin Wright is Vilas Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of many books, including Class Counts and Envisioning Real Utopias.
Praise for Envisioning Real Utopias by Erik Olin Wright: "[Wright]
builds a strong case for an emancipatory social science."
- Choice
"A benchmark contribution to necessary radical thinking."
- G ran Therborn
"Encyclopedic in its breadth, daunting in its ambition, this is the
culmination of Erik Olin Wright's revamping of Marxism ... Only a
thinker of Wright's genius could sustain such a badly needed
political imagination without losing analytical clarity and
precision."
- Michael Burawoy, UC Berkeley
"Hugely rich and stimulating ... An incisive diagnosis of the harms
done by capitalism; a masterful synthesis of the best work in
political sociology and political economy over the past thirty
years; and innovative theoretical framework for conceptualizing
both the goals of progressive change and the strategies for their
achievement; and inspiring survey of actually existing challenges
to capitalism that have arisen within capitalism itself; and a
compelling essay on the relation between the desirable, the viable
and the achievable. Anyone interested in the future of leftist
politics has to read this book."
- Adam Swift, Balliol College, Oxford
"This book is both a manifesto and a guidebook: an argument for
taking institutional design seriously, and a guide to how to do
that. It's a book that sociologists will want to read, but also,
frankly, that everyone in political theory and philosophy should be
reading too."
- Crooked Timber
"A fascinating book."
- openDemocracy
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