This volume argues that reinvigorating today's fragile democratic institutions depends upon extending the role of "secondary associations" - associations intermediate between the state and the market - as vehicles representing citizens and for formulating and executing policy.
Joshua Cohen was born in 1980 in New Jersey. He is the author of
five books, including the novels Cadenza for the Schneidermann
Violin Concerto, A Heaven of Others, and Witz. Cohen's essays have
appeared in The Forward, Nextbook, The Believer, and Harper's. He
lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Joel Rogers is Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of
Wisconsin, Madison and Director of COWS. His many books include On
Democracy, Right Turn, The Forgotten Majority, and What Workers
Want. A longtime activist, Rogers was identified by Newsweek as one
of the 100 Americans most likely to shape U.S. politics and culture
in the 21st century.
Ira Katznelson is Columbia University's Ruggles Professor of
Political Science and History. Having served as president of the
American Political Science Association, he is a member of the
Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical
Society. He is also the author of When Affirmative Action Was
White.
Erik Olin Wright is Vilas Distinguished Professor of Sociology at
the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of many books,
including Classes, Interrogating Inequality, Class Counts,
Deepening Democracy (with Archon Fung), and Envisioning Real
Utopias. For more information on Envisioning Real Utopias and the
Real Utopias project, and to access book content, please visit
realutopias.org (site in progress).
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