Popular Politics

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George Shepherd provides a popular democratic theory and strategy for democratic transition in the world. He demonstrates how popular democratic ideas have created universal human rights uprisings and popular movements, and he shows how real opposition is building to elite rule.Building on the old liberal and new associative rights of the democratic tradition of the Western world from Harold Laski and Jacques Maritain in Europe to the moral realism of Martin Luther King Jr., John Rawls, and David Brower in America, Professor Shepherd proposes numerous reforms in the economic and political systems that can occur through popular politics and participatory economics. Of considerable interest to activists, concerned citizens, and scholars involved in the debates over democracy and current economic-political policies.

GEORGE W. SHEPHERD, JR. is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Consortium on Human Rights Development at the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver. He has published widely in the fields of African Studies and Human Rights, including Emerging Human Rights (Greenwood, 1990) and The Trampled Grass: Tributary States and Self-Reliance in the Indian Ocean Zone of Peace (Praeger, 1987).