Building a societal democracy
This book is not yet another analysis of the political crisis. It starts from the reality of contemporary individualism and looks for ways to take into account the tremendous potential of citizen energy, too neglected by politicians who are struggling to understand it.
A radically different democracy is possible without the need to reform the constitution first. What is at stake is our ability to come together to tackle the problems we face in concrete terms: those of school, health, safety…
Our democratic life would emerge from the desolate spectacle in which it locks itself in if it adopts forms of continuous interaction with citizens. Reducing democracy to the electoral game alone now reinforces populism.
Utopian? Surely if nothing is done to explore the "citizenship deposits" that lie dormant. We propose a proactive policy of developing an "enterprising citizenship" with concrete proposals fed by ten years of reflection and experimentation within the Workshops of Citizenship.
This book is aimed at all those who are interested in politics but can no longer stand the way in which our public life is organized, to all those who want to act but do not act because they do not find their place…