PACO, ISSN: 2035-6609 - Copyright © 2020 - University of Salento, SIBA: http://siba-ese.unisalento.it PArtecipazione e COnflitto * The Open Journal of Sociopolitical Studies http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/paco ISSN: 1972-7623 (print version) ISSN: 2035-6609 (electronic version) PACO, Issue 13(1) 2020: 918-929 DOI: 10.1285/i20356609v13i1p918 Published in March 15, 2020 Work licensed under a Creative Commons At- tribution-Non commercial-Share alike 3.0 Italian License BOOK REVIEWS Michele Sorice, Partecipazione democratica. Teorie e problemi [De- mocratic Participation. Theories and Problems], Mondadori, Milano, 2019, ISBN 978-88-6184-706-4, pp. 162. Andrea Grippo Guglielmo Marconi University, Rome During 1990s democracy was the focus of an unprecedented volume of literature motivated by boundless faith in its expansion and progression. In the last decade aca- demics proved to have the same verbosity about the current crisis of democracy. This demonstrates that democracy is a never-ending process, that requires a continuous analysis on both a theoretical and empirical level. These latter dimensions are closely intertwined in the analysis on political participation provided by Michele Sorice in Par- tecipazione Democratica. Published in the series Lessico Democratico, Sorice’s volume aims to enlighten the experiences that break the anesthetized framework of the tradi- tional participation in Western democracy. The work has the remarkable merit to high- light the plurality of forms of democratic involvement and the creative richness of par- ticipatory practices which lie outside the liberal participation’s channel of election. In- deed, Sorice seeks to interpret the political participation beyond parties and institu- tions in the light of the deliberative-participatory paradigm, by which the whole book has to be read. brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by Università del Salento: ESE - Salento University Publishing