Citizens as consumers engage in political shopping; capitalists can build green developments; UK Muslim youth search the internet; Sicilian housewives take on the Mafia; vegetarians make a political statement; and, individuals may swarm like honeybees. This title presents the theory and practice of innovative forms of political participation.

Chapter One Introduction, Michele Micheletti; Chapter Two Why Creative Participation Today?, Andrew S. McFarland; Chapter Three Swarming, Alexandra Segerberg; Chapter Four Two Faces of Political Participation, James L. Guth; Chapter Five Grammars of Political Action Among Urban Muslim Youth, Therese O’Toole, Richard Gale; Chapter Six Capitalist Housing Developers as Green Activists, John S. Watson; Chapter Seven Everyday Shopping to Fight the Mafia in Italy, Francesca Forno, Carina Gunnarson; Chapter Eight Vegetarianism—A Lifestyle Politics?, Michele Micheletti, Dietlind Stolle; Chapter Nine Is Creative Participation Good for Democracy?, Jan W. van Deth; Chapter Ten Creative Participation, Kay Lehman Schlozman;