Civic Power

K. Sabeel Rahman is the President of Demos, a think-and-do tank committed to building a more inclusive and equitable democracy and economy. He is also an Associate Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, where he teaches constitutional law and administrative law. Rahman is a leading scholar of democracy, law, and inequality, and is the author of Democracy against Domination (2016), which won the American Political Science Association's Dahl Award. Hollie Russon Gilman is a Lecturer at Columbia University and holds research fellowships at New America and Georgetown's Beeck Center. Her work focuses on the intersection of civic engagement, technology, and governance. She is the author of Democracy Reinvented: Participatory Budgeting and Civic Innovation in America (2016). She served in the Obama Administration in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

• Preface; 1. Democracy in crisis; Part I. Civic Power through Organizing: 2. Democracy and inequality as a function of the balance of power; 3. Organizing for power; Part II. Civic Power through Governance: 4. From governance to power – rethinking democracy reform; 5. Bureaucratizing participation; 6. Power-oriented policy design; 7. Conclusion – democracy's future; Bibliography.

'With clarity and panache, this book bridges insights from both academic scholarship and communities of practice. In doing so, it makes a fresh, must-read argument that puts questions of power back into the center of conversations about how we realize the democratic promise in America.' Hahrie Han, SNF Agora Institute, The Johns Hopkins University