Community Wealth Building and the Reconstruction of American Democracy

Edited by Melody C. Barnes, Co-Director of the Democracy Initiative, Dorothy Danforth Compton Professor and Professor of Practice in the Miller Center of Public Affairs, and a Distinguished Fellow in the School of Law at the University of Virginia, Corey D.B. Walker, Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities, Wake Forest University and Thad M. Williamson, Associate Professor of Leadership Studies and Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Law, University of Richmond, US

• Contents:PART I COMMUNITY WEALTH BUILDING ANDTHE PROMISE OF DEMOCRATIC RECONSTRUCTION1 Introduction: can we make American democracy work? 3Melody C. Barnes, Corey D.B. Walker and Thad M. Williamson2 Becoming the American community we should be—buthave never been 11Melody C. Barnes and Thad M. WilliamsonPART II RACIAL JUSTICE AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY3 Repairing American democracy? 39Lawrie Balfour4 Paidea , politics, and the people: deep democracy and thenew urban commons 58Corey D.B. WalkerPART III POLITICAL ECONOMY AND COMMUNITYWEALTH BUILDING5 Capitalism and the future of democracy 78Isabel Sawhill6 Community wealth building: lessons from Italy 102Margaret Kohn7 A place to call home? Property, freedom, and the commonwealth 117Richard DaggerPART IV THE POLITICS OF DEMOCRATIC REFORM8 Achieving accountability—or not—in contemporary times 132Kenneth P. Ruscio9 Ranking ballots and policy juries: institutional reforms in America 147Jason S. Maloy10 Gendered (and racialized) partisan polarization 161Nicholas J.G. Winter11 “Many new barriers”: democracy and resistance to theVoting Rights Act of 1965 181Julian Maxwell HayterPART V TOWARD A PRACTICAL POLITICS OFCOMMUNITY WEALTH BUILDING12 Targeted universalism in urban communities: racialdiscourse and policy rhetoric as harmony 198Ravi K. Perry13 Identifying structural racism as a barrier to communitywealth building 220Risha R. Berry14 The university as anchor institution in community wealthbuilding: snapshots from two Virginia universities 244Barbara Brown Wilson and Meghan Z. Gough15 Conclusion: the promise of 21st-century democratic renewal 259Corey D.B. Walker and Thad M. WilliamsonIndex