Acknowledgments

Part I: Changing the World . . . and Ourselves: The Radical Left and the Problems of State Power
1. From the Streets to the State: A Critical Introduction
Paul Christopher Gray
2. D emocratizing the Party and the State: Transcending the Limits of the Left
Leo Panitch
Part II: Confronting Leviathan: Parties, Social Movements, and the Capitalist State
3. Building "Parties of a New Type": A Comparative Analysis of New Radical Left Parties in Western Europe
Xavier Lafrance and Catarina Príncipe
4. Watching Over the Right to Turn Left: The Limits of State Autonomy in Pink Tide Venezuela and Ecuador
Thomas Chiasson-LeBel
5. Casting Shadows: Chokwe Lumumba and the Struggle for Racial Justice and Economic Democracy in Jackson, Mississippi
Kali Akuno
6. T he Radical Democracy of the People's Democratic Party: Transforming the Turkish State
Erdem Yörük
7. T oward a Radical Politics of Rights: Lessons about Legal Leveraging and Its Limitations
Michael McCann and George I. Lovell
Part III: In, against, and beyond the Behemoth: Projects for "Democratic Administration"
8. Market Failures, Failing States: Challenges for Democratization Projects
Greg Albo
9. Forging a "Social Knowledge Economy": Transformative Collaborations between Radical Left
Governments, State Workers, and Solidarity Economies
Hilary Wainwright
10. Femocratic Administration and the Politics of Transformation
Tammy Findlay
11. Beyond Service, beyond Coercion? Prisoner Co-ops and the Path to Democratic Administration
Greg McElligott
Contributors
Index

Paul Christopher Gray teaches political science and labor studies at Brock University, Canada.