Chapter 1 Introduction: The Politics of Inclusion and Empowerment — Gender, Class and Citizenship

Chapter 2 Situated Knowledge and Democratic Discussions

Chapter 3 Identity Politics: Have We Now Had Enough?

Chapter 4 Deliberative Democracy and Civil Society — An Expansion of Jürgen Habermas’s Understanding of Civil Society

Chapter 6 The Danish Gender Model: Between Movement Politics and Representative Politics

Chapter 7 Gendered Citizenship: A Model for European Citizenship? Considerations against the German Background

Chapter 8 A Politics of Recognition and Respect: Involving People with Experience of Poverty in Decision- Making that Affects their Lives

Chapter 9 Exclusion, Inclusion and Empowerment: Community Empowerment? Reflecting on the Lessons of Strategies to Promote Empowerment

Chapter 10 Redefining Citizenship: Community, Civil Society and Adult Learning

Chapter 11 Welfare, Gender and Political Agency: Comparing Strategies in the UK and Denmark

Chapter 12 The Politics of Marginal Space

Chapter 13 Social Polarisation and Urban Democratic Governance