''Direct Action and Democracy Today'' is a 2005 book by

April Carter April Carter (born 22 November 1937) was a British peace activist. She was a political lecturer at the universities of Lancaster, Somerville College, Oxford and Queensland, and was a Fellow at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institut ...

. In the book, Carter debates the nature and meaning of social and political protest and discusses the relationship between

direct action Direct action originated as a political activist term for economic and political acts in which the actors use their power (e.g. economic or physical) to directly reach certain goals of interest, in contrast to those actions that appeal to oth ...

and people's claims for greater democratic control, not only against repressive regimes but also in liberal parliamentary states. Carter is clearly supportive of direct action, but her analysis is based on logic and evidence rather than advocacy. Her assessments suggest that theorists have not been paying enough attention to the challenge posed by direct action, a challenge to both systems of power and the ideas that legitimate them. A review
by Brian Martin published in '' Journal of Peace Research'', volume 43, number 4, July 2006, p. 492.

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