Reclaiming Democracy argues that the managerial approach to solving curent political crises violates 'a right to politics', that is, a right that our collective life be guided by genuine politics: by discussion of and decision among alternative principles and policies. The contributors to this volume are united in their commitment to explore how and where this right can be affirmed in a way that resuscitates democracy in the wake of the crisis.

Selected Contents: Introduction Albena Azmanova and Mihaela Mihai Part 1: Loci of Democracy 1. Agonism and the Crisis of Representative Democracy Paulina Tambakaki 2. Freedom, Democracy, and Working Life Keith Breen 3. Technology: The Promises of Communicative Capitalism Jodi Dean 4. Ungovernability Claus Offe Part 2: Modes of Democratic Politics 5. Democracy, Law and Global Finance: A Legal and Institutional Perspective Tamara Lothian 6. Democracy and the Absolute Power of Disembedded Financial Markets Alessandro Ferrara 7. Success and Failure in the Deliberative EconomyArjun Appadurai 8. The Promise of Global Transparency: Between Information and Emancipation Matthew Fluck Part 3: Democratic Critique 9. Neoliberalism, the Street, and the Forum Noëlle McAfee 10. Founding Political Critique in a Post-Political World: Towards a Renewal of Utopian Energies Nikolas Kompridis 11. From the Assembly to the Agora: Non-Linear Politics and the Politicisation of Everyday Life David Chandler

Albena Azmanova teaches political theory at the University of Kent's Brussels School of International Studies where she heads the postgraduate program in international political economy.

Mihaela Mihai is the 50th Anniversary Lecturer at the University of York, UK. Her research interests cut across political theory, political science and law.