Using colourful and detailed case material, Street-Level Democracy introduces a new method of researching everyday politics. It is a wide-ranging book that traces the conflicts between global power and local action. People in farming communities, town mosques, city markets, and fishing communities suffer the effects of wrenching change, but live far from the centres of power. From Britain and small-town USA to Nigeria, India, and Nicaragua, citizens everywhere grapple with the politics of everyday life.

Jonathan Barker taught politics and development issues for thirty years at the University of Toronto.

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Katherine Isbester, a former adjunct professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, is now an independent scholar and consultant on development issues living in London, England.

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“This is an important book for anyone interested in prospects for political mobilization in the context of globalizing capitalism.”

Socialist Studies Bulletin

“For readers preoccupied with the survival of local democracy in the face of growing global power, this is a timely book.”

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