[URPE] RRPE special issue deadline extended: Economic Democracy

[Enid Arvidson]

Call for Papers: Special Issue of RRPE on Economic Democracy

download pdf copy of CFP here:
http://www.urpe.org/rrpe/media/CFPSpecialIssueEconomicDemocracy.pdf

Manuscript submission deadline: extended to 1 December 2009

Economic democracy is a theme that has run through radical and  
progressive theory and practice. Broadly, it stands for an expansion  
of democratic practice beyond the political realm, into the economic  
aspects of our lives. It has been applied at the microeconomic level  
in pursuit of workers’ self-management and related cooperative  
structures. It also suggests the need for planning, where democracy  
would be fundamental to decision making about an economy’s objectives  
and means of achieving them. It has been used as a term to expand the  
role of organized labor in management, and to link unions more  
fundamentally to national political processes. Today it also has  
application to household decision making, and to aspirations for  
global forms of redistribution.

All of the themes mentioned above are relevant to this special issue,  
and there are no doubt others of importance that we have overlooked.  
In the past few decades, the term economic democracy has appeared in  
book titles, and as an aspiration of political movements. The RRPE’s  
Editorial Board thinks that it is time to reinvestigate issues that  
fall under this theme, and a special issue is put forward as a partial  
means to that end. We see this discussion as critical to renewing  
radical thought and re-energizing the left in the United States, and  
in other nations and localities.

We invite papers on all aspects of economic democracy, at levels from  
the household to the global economy, and on topics related to  
inclusion, participation in decisions that affect one’s life, self- 
fulfillment, and realization of aspirations to be a more engaged  
citizen. Race, gender, ecology, and other fields of inquiry are  
appropriate, if linked to expanding our practice of democracy or  
barriers to doing so.

It is a common belief that capitalism sets strict limits on how much  
democratic practice is possible in society. Is this the case? If so,  
how would various forms of socialist society remove this barrier?

All aspects of economic activity are relevant to this topic, as we  
seek to encourage broad rethinking of what it means to use democratic  
practice in material provisioning. Various forms of democratic  
practice are also at issue, including direct participation and  
representative democracy; geographic forms that suit local, national,  
and global practice; and democratic practice across households,  
private for-profit and nonprofit firms, the cooperative sector, and  
the public sector itself.

For more information, please visit the RRPE website:
http://www.urpe.org/rrpe/Announcements/CallForPapers/CFPSpecialIssueEconomicDemocracy.htm

Please send four copies by 1 December 2009 to:

Hazel Dayton Gunn, Managing Editor
Review of Radical Political Economics
Department of City and Regional Planning
106 W. Sibley Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853, U.S.A.
phone: 315-789-1414
email: hg18 at cornell.edu

Submissions must follow the instructions to contributors listed in  
each issue of the Review, or available from the Managing Editor. All  
submissions are subject to the usual review procedures and they should  
not be under review with any other publication. We strongly encourage  
authors to send a brief title and abstract as soon as possible, so we  
can coordinate timely publication of the issue. 
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