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Deepening Democracy keyword-judith-herman Tom Nairn’s wide-ranging discussion takesThe institutional forms of liberal democracy developed in the nineteenth century seem increasingly ill suited to the problems we face in the twenty first. This dilemma has given rise in some places to a new, deliberative democracy, and this volume explores four contemporary empirical cases in which the principles of such a democracy have been at least partially instituted: the participatory budget in Porto Alegre; the school decentralization councils