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I profile three normative models of democracy at the center of current debates in democratic theory -- communitarian, deliberative, & agonistic. I then critique their limitations. Calling for greater sociological & political realism, I turn to Danilo Zolo's thesis of "complexity & democracy" & his view that today democracy is a supplemental feature of technooligarchic regimes. Drawing on the work of Zolo, Michel Foucault, & Sheldon Wolin, I relocate the idea & practice of democracy. I contend that contemporary democracy exists in its most vital & novel form as an ethos & set of strategies operating at the local & microlevels of adaptation & resistance to complex power & policy networks. Adapted from the source document.

Soviet-type Communist systems are organized hierarchically and are highly formalized and bureaucratized. So are their industrial relations systems and schemes of worker participation in management. Between 1953 and 1975, the Soviet Union and the Soviet-controlled countries of Eastern Europe underwent a certain measure of modern ization. Nevertheless, their basic nature remained intact. The trade unions continued to be subordinate to the ruling parties, and the main forms of participation by the working people in management continued to be production con ferences and socialist emulation. During the same period, the Soviet model of industrial democracy was severely challenged in Poland (1956), Hungary (1956), and Czecho slovakia (1968). In addition, Yugoslavia launched a rival model as early as 1950. While spontaneous strikes occurred only occasionally, certain apolitical or non-ideological forms of deviance remained permanent features of the Soviet- type system, ranging from lateness for work and indif ferent performance through evasion and violation of formal norms to absenteeism, labor turnover, and pilferage. Al though in the mid-1970s the prospect of any far-reaching reforms was bleak, the contradictions inherent to the systems had not disappeared. Consequently, they were by no means free of potential conflict.

Soviet type communist systems are organized hierarchically & are highly formalized & bureaucratized, as are their industrial relations systems & schemes of worker participation in management. Between 1953 & 1975, the USSR & the Soviet-controlled countries of Eastern Europe underwent a certain measure of modernization. Nevertheless, the basic nature remained intact. The trade unions continued to be subordinate to the ruling parties, & the main forms of participation by the working people in management continued to be production conferences & socialist emulation. In the same period, the Soviet model of industrial democracy was severely challenged in Poland, Hungary, & Czechoslovakia. Yugoslavia launched a rival model as early as 1950. While spontaneous strikes occurred only occasionally, certain apolitical or nonideological forms of deviance remained permanent features of the Soviet type system, ranging from lateness for work & indifferent performance through evasion & violation of formal norms to absenteeism, labor turnover, & pilferage. Prospects for far reaching reforms are bleak, & contradictions inherent to the systems remain. Modified HA.

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