Notes
See Marcel Henoff and Tracy B. Strong (eds), Public Space and Democracy (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001).
An unparalleled account of how the New England town meetings approximate this ideal in important ways is Frank M. Bryan, Real Democracy: The New England Town Meeting and How It Works (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004).
Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989).
Joseph A. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (New York: Harper and Row, [1943] 1962); Walter Lippmann, The Phantom Public (Somerset, NJ: Transaction Publishers, [1927] 1993); Adam Przworski, “Minimalist Conception of Democracy: A Defense,” in Ian Shapiro and Casiano Hacker Cordón (eds), Democracy's Value (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
Thomas E. Patterson, The Vanishing Voter: Public Involvement in an Age of Uncertainty (New York: Knopf, 2002).
Przworski, “Minimalist Conception of Democracy: A Defense.”
Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democracy Politics (London: Verso, 1985).
Robert Putnam, Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993).
Henri Lefebvre, “The Right to the City,” in E. Kofman and E. Lebas (eds), Writings on Cities (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996 [1986]), pp. 63–181.
Hannah Arendt, On Revolution (New York: Viking, 1963).
Cf. Craig Calhoun (ed.), Habermas and the Public Sphere (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992).