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The chapter discusses experiments in participatory democracy that have been taking place in the last three decades, which have essentially revived the council tradition on a local level, often with impressive success. It argues that Arendt’s political theory may help us re-think these experiments, their meaning and achievements and that at the same time, these experiments should make us re-consider the prospects for participatory democracy of the kind proposed by Arendt.
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Lederman, S. (2019). Arendt and the Current Participatory Moment. In: Hannah Arendt and Participatory Democracy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11692-7_9
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