Intro -- Front Matter -- 1. Democratic Innovations and Social Movements -- Democratic challenges in the Great Recession -- Progressive social movements as sites for innovation -- This volume -- 2. Crowd-Sourced Constitutionalism: Social Movements in the Constitutional Process -- Iceland in the crisis -- Expanding the analysis: the Irish deliberative constitutional process -- Concluding remarks -- 3. Referendums from Below: Direct Democracy and Social Movements -- 'Water is not for sale': direct democracy against the privatization of water supply -- Expanding the analysis from a comparative perspective: referendums in Scotland and Catalonia -- Concluding remarks -- 4. Movement Parties in the Great Recession -- Podemos as a movement party -- Developing a comparison: MAS in Bolivia -- Conclusion -- 5. Progressive Movements and Democratic Innovations: Some Conclusions -- Innovating from below -- Conditions and limits for democratic innovations -- Democracy and the populist Right -- Democratic innovations as social movement outcomes -- Institutional change in empirical theories of democracy -- Innovations in intense times: the way forward -- Bibliography -- Index -- End User License Agreement.
"Leading political sociologist della Porta rehabilitates the role social movements have long played in fostering democracy. Bridging social movement studies and democratic theory, she investigates contemporary innovations of the progressive Left in times of crisis and reflects on the potential and limits of such alternative politics"--
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