Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Minimum Technical Requirements for Sustainability -- Chapter 3. Aiming for Genotopia -- Chapter 4. Prelude to Politics -- Chapter 5. Engaging Politics -- Chapter 6. The Once and Future Democracy...

Are politics local? Why? Where? When? How do we measure local versus national politics? And what are the effects? This book provides answers to these questions, within an explicitly comparative framework, including both advanced and developing democracies. It does so by using a...