Creating a Democratic Public: The Struggle for Urban Participatory Democracy During the Progressive Era challenges us to reconsider how we think about democracy by bringing us into critical dialogue with the past and exploring the work of yesterday's activists. Combining historical analysis, political theory, and social criticism, Kevin Mattson analyzes experiments in grassroots democracy from the Progressive Era and explores how we might foster more public involvement in political deliberation today.
 
Published by Penn State University Press