Rethinking Civic Participation in Democratic Theory and Practice

Rod Dacombe is Lecturer in Politics in the Department of Political Economy, King's College, London, UK. Previously he was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the same department. He works on civic participation, democratic theory and the role of voluntary associations in public administration.

• 1. The problem with civic participation.- 2. Neighbourhood poverty and the democracy of association.- 3. Participation and democracy in policy and practice.- 4. Civic life in Blackbird Leys.- 5.  Civic participation, formal politics and the democratic underground.- 6. Community structure, participation and stability.- 7. Networks, reciprocity and trust.- 8. Does deprivation really work against participation?.- 9. Responding to democracy’s critics.