The most remarkable and subtle part of Dryzek's argument is his attempt to contruct green theory of democratic communication, which takes account of agency and communication in the non-human natural world ... The argument is a bit like crossing a ravine on a bridge of eggshells, and is conducted with considerable intellectual excitement ... Dryzek's discussion is throughout careful, rigorous, ... Read moredetailed, and in dealing with views from which he distinguishes his own position, scrupulously sympathetic.
Rodney Barker, Democratizaton, Vol.8, 2001
Review from previous edition There is much to like and learn from this small but densely argued volume ... All scholars interested in the relationship between democracy and voluntary organizations in civil society will find important food for thought...richly argued and thoughtful...even though this book will raise many questions and criticisms, these are themselves a reflection not of Dryzek's failure as a political thinker, but of his strength as an interesting, provocative, and serious democratic theorist"
AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW
Dryzek has convincingly argued the case for a more critical, insurgent, pluralistic, reflexive, transnational, ecological and dynamic discursive democracy. More than this, he has carved out an adventurous, distinctive path through much familiar terrain.
POLITICAL QUARTERLY
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