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This important book asks where should power and governance lie in our democracy? Simon Parker, a leading expert on public services and government, claims the answer is to give power away. He offers policy recommendations and practical ideas for creating a new kind of politics focused on unleashing society's creative potential.

Political sociology --- United Kingdom --- Political participation --- Great Britain --- Politics and government --- Political participation - Great Britain --- Great Britain - Politics and government - 21st century --- Power (Social sciences) --- Decentralization in government --- Grande-Bretagne --- Politique et gouvernement. --- Politics and government. --- Representative government and representation

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This book brings together the established field of political communication and the emerging field of critical event studies to develop new questions and approaches. Using this combined framework, it reflects upon how we should understand the expression of democratic participation in mainstream mass media during the 2015 UK General Election and the 2016 referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU. Are we now living in an era where democratic participation is much more concerned with spectacle rather than substantive debate? The book addresses this conceptual journey and reflects on differing models of democratic participation, before applying that framework to the two identified case studies. Finally, the authors consider what it means to be living in a period of democratic spectacle, where political events have become evental politics. The book will be of use to students and scholars across the fields of political science and culture and media studies, as well as wide readers interested in the current issues facing British politics. .

Political participation --- Referendum --- History --- Great Britain. --- Elections, 2015 --- Great Britain --- Great Britian --- European Union countries --- Politics and government --- Foreign relations --- Democracy --- Political communication. --- Elections. --- Great Britain-Politics and gover. --- Journalism. --- Political sociology. --- Political Communication. --- Electoral Politics. --- British Politics. --- Political Sociology. --- Mass political behavior --- Political behavior --- Political science --- Sociology --- Writing (Authorship) --- Literature --- Publicity --- Fake news --- Electoral politics --- Franchise --- Polls --- Politics, Practical --- Plebiscite --- Political campaigns --- Representative government and representation --- Political communication --- Sociological aspects --- Great Britain—Politics and government. --- Political participation - Great Britain - History - 21st century --- Referendum - Great Britain - History - 21st century --- Great Britain - Politics and government - 2007 --- -Great Britian - Foreign relations - European Union countries --- European Union countries - Foreign relations - Great Britian

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The Zapatistas of Chiapas and the Landless Workers Movement (MST) of Brazil are often celebrated as shining examples in the global struggle against Neoliberalism. But what have these movements achieved in more than two decades of resistance and can any of these achievements realistically contribute to an alternative development future? Through a perfect balance of grassroots testimonies, participative observation and consideration of key development and critical political economy debates, Land and Freedom compares, for the first time, the Zapatista and MST movements. Casting a spotlight on their resistance to globalising market forces Vergara-Camus gets to the heart of how these movements organise themselves and how the decommodification of social relations is key to understanding their radical development potential. -- Provided by publisher.

Communist International -- History. --- Neoliberalism. --- Political participation -- Great Britain. --- Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais sem Terra (Brazil) --- Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Mexico) --- Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra. --- Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional. --- Latin America. --- Lateinamerika. --- Organisation der Zapatistischen Bewegung in Chiapas, Mexiko --- EZLN --- Zapatistische Nationale Befreiungsarmee --- Zapatisten --- Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional --- Zapatistische Armee der Nationalen Befreiung --- Armée Zapatiste de Libération Nationale --- Zapatista National Liberation Army --- Guerilla --- Mexiko --- Setor de Educação do MST --- Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra --- Landless Rural Workers Movement (Brazil) --- Landless Workers Movement (Brazil) --- Mouvement des sans terre du Brésil --- Mouvement des sans terres (Brazil) --- Movimento de los Trabajadores Rurales Sin Tierra (Brazil) --- Movimento dos sem Terra (Brazil) --- Movimento sem Terra (Brazil) --- Movimiento de los sin Tierra (Brazil) --- Movimiento sin Tierra (Brazil) --- MST --- Movimento dos Trabalhadores sem Terra (Brazil) --- Armée zapatiste de libération nationale (Mexico) --- Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Mexico) --- Zapatista National Liberation Army (Mexico) --- Zapatistas --- Iberoamerika --- Lateinamerikaner --- Asociación Latinoamericana de Libre Comercio countries --- Neotropical region --- Neotropics --- New World tropics --- Spanish America --- Social movements --- Development studies