Charles Sabel

His research centers on public innovations, European Union governance, labor standards, economic development, and ultra-robust networks.

This envisions democracy as a form of "directly-deliberative polyarchy" that promotes collective decision making in public arenas for citizens.

[2] Sabel together with Michael Dorf further explained this notion further, citing that through rigorous citizen participation, local government units can provide solutions to given regulatory problem.

[3] His 1984 book, The Second Industrial Divide: Possibilities for Prosperity, co-written with Michael J. Piore, has been widely influential among labor scholars.

[citation needed] Sabel and others designed his mountain house via “a continuous mutual disruption,”[4] which is a recurring theme in his scholarly work.