Bibliography of Participatory Society Readings

Direct Democracy and Participatory Forces in Politics

Citrin, Jack. 1996. "Who's the Boss? Direct Democracy and Popular Control of Government." In Stephen Craig, ed. Broken Contract? The Changing Relationship Between Americans and Their Government. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Rosenthal, Alan. The Decline of Representative Democracy: Process, Participation and Power in State Legislatures. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1997.

Tolbert, Caroline J. 1998. "Changing Rules for State Legislatures: Direct Democracy and Governance Policies," in Shaun Bowler, Todd Donovan, and Caroline J. Tolbert, eds. Citizens as Legislators: Direct Democracy in the United States. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press.

Tolbert, Caroline J. 2003. "Direct Democracy and Institutional Realignment in the American States." Political Science Quarterly 118(3): 467-489.

Participation in Government

Cox, Geof. 1999. "Scotland setting the pace with participation." Modern Management (April)

Cox, Geof. 1995. "Empowerment - Letting people do what they are paid for." Management Scotland 3 (January)

Lazere, Ed. Improving the Transparency of the DC Budget. DC Fiscal Policy Institute.

Peters, B. Guy. 1996. The Future of Governing: Four Emerging Models. Lawrence, KS: Kansas University Press.

Savitch, H.V. 1998. "Global Challenge and Institutional Capacity: Or, How We Can Refit Local Administration for the Next Century." Administration & Society, 30: 248-273.

Wampler, Brian. 2000. A Guide to Participatory Budgeting.

Participatory Developments in Nonprofit Organizations and Civil Society

National Neighborhood Indicators Project. "Democratizing Information."

Wampler, Brian and Leonardo Avritzer. Forthcoming. "Participatory Publics: Civil Society and New Institutions in Democratic Brazil." Comparative Politics.

The World Bank Participation Sourcebook. Washington, DC: World Bank.

Participation in Business

Ostroff, F. 1999. The Horizontal Organization: What the Organization of the Future Actually Looks Like and How it Delivers Value to Customers. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Stevens, David. 1990. Participatory Business Planning. Brighton: Wrightbooks.

Participatory Culture

Horovitz, Bruce. 2004. "You Want it Your Way: Americans Have Become Picky. They Demand-And Get-What They Want. Consider: Starbucks Offers More than 19,000 Ways to Order a Cup of Coffee." USA Today, March 5th.

Gregory D. Saxton. 1999. Nation, Nation-Building, and Nationalism in the Catalan-Speaking Cyberspace. American Sociological Association: Collective Behavior & Social Movements Section Working Paper Series, Number 1, Volume 2.  

• In this paper, I explore how the "targeted media" enabled by advent of computer-mediated communications has facilitated the growth of participatory social and cultural movements.

Social Change

Drucker, Peter F. 1994. "The Age of Social Transformation." The Atlantic Monthly, 274: 53-80.

Drucker, Peter F. 1999. Management Challenges for the 21st Century. Harper Business.

Inglehart, Ronald. 1997. Modernization and Post-Modernization: Cultural, Economic and Political Change in 43 Societies. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Putnam, R.D. 1993. "The Prosperous Community: Social Capital and Public Life." American Prospect 13: 35-42.

Putnam, R.D. 1993. Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Putnam, R.D. 1995. "Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital." Journal of Democracy, 6: 65-78.

Putnam, R.D. 2000. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.

Rochon, T. 2001. Culture Moves: Ideas, Activism, and Changing Values. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.