Policy paper: Raging streets - Waking up to reality: Global street protest or a sign of democracy crisis?

Petra Guasti, Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz

The global protest movement Occupy Together has been in the headlines of all world media. The fundamental uniting motto of the protestors is “We are the 99%”. The choice of the banner points toward one of the thorniest issues of our time – the legitimacy crisis of representative democracy.

December 2011

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