Political Theory
• Democracy and Work

References for Theme: Democracy and Work

• Acemoglu, Daron
• Redesigning AI (2021)

• Ackers, Peter; Marchington, Mick; Wilkinson, Adrian; Dundon, Tony
• "Employee Participation in Britain: From Collective Bargaining & Industrial Democracy to Employee Involvement & Social Partnership--Two Decades of Manchester/Loughborough Research" (2006)

• Adman, Per
• "Does workplace experience enhance political participation? A critical test of a venerable hypothesis" (2008)

  (p.116) When it comes to civic skills, voluntary associations are not the only means to increase political participation. Verba et al. (1995) claim that civic skills can also be developed at the workplace. In the 1970s, several participatory democrats such as Carole Pateman even pointed to democratic workplaces as the starting point for a more participatory political democracy at large. Both of these approaches have been supported empirically. However, I argue that appropriate data have been lacking in previous research, and when I use more adequate data no support is found.

• "Does workplace experience enhance political participation? A critical test of a venerable hypothesis" (2008)

• Anderson, Elizabeth
• "Equality and Freedom in the Workplace: Recovering Republican Insights" (2015)

• Arneson, Richard J
• "Democratic Rights at National and Workplace Levels" (1993)

• Azmanova, Albena; Mihai, Mihaela
• Reclaiming Democracy: Judgment, Responsibility and the Right to Politics (2015)

• Bartha, Paul F A
• By Parallel Reasoning (2010)

• Battilana, Julie; Yen, Julie; Ferreras, Isabelle; Ramarajan, Lakshmi
• "Democratizing Work: Redistributing power in organizations for a democratic and sustainable future" (2022)

• Budd, John W; Lamare, J Ryan; Timming, Andrew R
• "Learning about Democracy at Work: Cross-National Evidence on Individual Employee Voice Influencing Political Participation in Civil Society" (2018)

  (p.957) If a causal link can be established in which voice practices in the workplace positively influence participation in civil society, then this could be seen as a positive outward democratic spillover. Understanding this spillovercan help inform public policy on employee participation (Budd and Zagelmeyer 2010) and contribute toward understanding the ways in which a society can encourage more active political participation among its citizenry. Indeed, the most optimistic of the existing scholarship implies that this spillover may hold the key to shaping democratic societies (Greenberg 1986). Moreover, evaluations of organizational management practices aretypically directed inward, largely focusing on how they affect organizations and work-related outcomes for...

• "Learning about Democracy at Work: Cross-National Evidence on Individual Employee Voice Influencing Political Participation in Civil Society" (2018)

  (p.979) Using a sample of more than 14,000 European workers, we find that employees with greater levels of individual autonomy and voice at work are indeed significantly more likely to engage in a broad array of prodemocratic behaviors. This relationship appears just as strong as the commonly accepted relationship between trade unions and political participation, and appears to be a distinct relationship apart from this collective voice sphere.

• "Learning about Democracy at Work: Cross-National Evidence on Individual Employee Voice Influencing Political Participation in Civil Society" (2018)

• Charles, Julien; Ferreras, Isabelle; Lamine, Auriane
• "A freelancers’ cooperative as a case of democratic institutional experimentation for better work: a case study of SMart-Belgium" (2020)

• Cohen, Joshua
• "The Economic Basis of Deliberative Democracy" (1989)

• Cukier, Alexis
• "Le travail démocratique" (2018)

• Dahl, Robert Alan
• A Preface to Economic Democracy (1986)

• "A Right to Workplace Democracy? Response to Robert Mayer" (2001)

• De Munck, Jean; Ferreras, Isabelle
• "The democratic exchange as the combination of deliberation, bargaining and experimentation" (2012)

• De Tocqueville, Alexis
• Democracy in America (2003)

• Elden, Maxwell J
• "Political Efficacy at Work: The Connection between More Autonomous Forms of Workplace Organization and a More Participatory Politics" (1981)

• Emmenegger, Patrick; Marx, Paul; Schraff, Dominik
• "Off to a Bad Start: Unemployment and Political Interest during Early Adulthood" (2017)

  (p.317)  Being in work is associated with a number of resources—in particular, civic skills and politically relevantnetworks—that foster interest and participation. By implication, being out of work deprives workers of these resources.

• "Off to a Bad Start: Unemployment and Political Interest during Early Adulthood" (2017)

  (p.326) Our study has important policy implications. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called youth unemployment “the most pressing problem facing Europe at the present time.” Although she was mostly referring to the well documented material and psychological repercussions of youth unemployment, such experiences, as we have shown, can also lower political involvement. This means that those who need public policies most are the least likely to make their voices heard. This finding reinforces arguments that fighting youth unemployment should be a top priority for policy makers—even in times of tight budgets.

• "Off to a Bad Start: Unemployment and Political Interest during Early Adulthood" (2017)

• Ferreras, Isabelle
• Firms as Political Entities: Saving Democracy through Economic Bicameralism (2017)

• Democratizing the Corporation: The Bicameral Firm (2024)

• Ferreras, Isabelle; Battilana, Julie; Méda, Dominique
• Democratize Work: The Case for Reorganizing the Economy (2022)

• Fournier, Valérie
• "Utopianism and the Cultivation of Possibilities: Grassroots Movements of Hope" (2002)

• Frank, Tom
• One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism and the End of Economic Democracy (2010)

• Gallie, Duncan
• "Direct Participation and Meaningful Work: The Implications of Task Discretion and Organizational Participation" (2019)

• Gould, Carol C
• Rethinking Democracy: Freedom and Social Co-operation in Politics, Economy, and Society (1988)

• Rethinking Democracy: Freedom and Social Co-operation in Politics, Economy, and Society (1990)

• Gutmann, Amy; Thompson, Dennis F
• Democracy and Disagreement (1998)

• Hirvonen, O; Breen, K
• "Recognitive Arguments for Workplace Democracy" (2020)

  (p.1) It is somewhat surprising that recognition theorists have not yet provided detailed arguments for workplace democracy. We cannot, of course, offer an exact explanation for other theorists’ choices, but one potential reason for this could be that they, like Jütten, do not see workplace democracy as necessary for dignified life. A second potential reason is that the focus of the central theorists has been elsewhere. Axel Honneth has a very general and historical social theory, which understands modern society as a functional whole with differentiated institutional spheres. In this picture, democracy resides mostly in the politics of the public sphere...

• "Recognitive Arguments for Workplace Democracy" (2020)

• Hsieh, Nien-Hê
• "Work, Ownership, and Productive Enfranchisement" (2012)

• Hyland, James L
• Democratic Theory: The Philosophical Foundations (1995)

• Landemore, Helene E; Ferreras, Isabelle
• Towards a Justification of the Firm/State Analogy (2012)

• Lorenzini, Jasmine; Giugni, Marco
• "Employment status, social capital, and political participation: A comparison of unemployed and employed youth in Geneva" (2012)

  (p.347) Do unemployed and employed youth display different levels of social capital and political participation? Does social capital favors the political participation of unemployed and employed youth? Is social capital more important for unemployed youth than for employed youth? Perhaps quite surprisingly, especially in the light of works that have stressed the obstacles faced by unemployed to engage politically (Bagguley 1991, 1992; Chabanet 2008; Chabanet and Faniel 2011; Faniel 2004; Royall 1997), we found, to begin with, that the employment status does not have a strong impact on the political participation of youth. More specifically, long-term unemployed youth in Switzerland are...

• "Employment status, social capital, and political participation: A comparison of unemployed and employed youth in Geneva" (2012)

• Malleson, Tom
• After Occupy: Economic Democracy for the 21st Century (2014)

• McCormick, John P
• "Republicanism and Democracy" (2013)

• Narveson, Jan
• "Democracy and Economic Rights" (1992)

• Néron, Pierre-Yves
• "Rethinking the Very Idea of Egalitarian Markets and Corporations: Why Relationships Might Matter More than Distribution" (2015)

• Pateman, Carole
• Participation and Democratic Theory (1970)

• Pettit, Philip
• On the People's Terms: A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy (2012)

• Rostbøll, Christian F
• Deliberative Freedom: Deliberative Democracy as Critical Theory (2008)

• Shapiro, Ian; Hacker-Cordón, Casiano; Hardin, Russell
• Democracy's Values (1999)