How ordinary citizens band together to bring about real change In an America where the rich and fortunate have free rein to do as they please, can the ideal of

In cities across the US, grass-roots organizations are working to revitalize popular participation in disenfranchised communities by bringing ordinary people in

The first two decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed a rise of populism and decline of public confidence in many of the formal institutions of democ

Uprisings such as the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street signal a resurgence of populist politics in America, pitting the people against the establishment in a st

The collected essays in this book provide a comparative examination of the process of grassroots mobilization and the development of community-based forms of po