Evaluating democratic innovations : curing the democratic malaise? / edited by Brigitte Geissel and Kenneth Newton.

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Book
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English
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1st ed.
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Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2012.
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1 online resource (233 p.)

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In the face of increasing political disenchantment, many Western governments have experimented, with innovations which aim to enhance the working and quality of democracy as well as increasing citizens' political awareness and understanding of political matters. This text is the most comprehensive account of these various democratic innovations. Written by an outstanding team of international experts it examines the theories behind these democratic innovations, how they have worked in practice and evaluates their success or failure. It explains experiments with new forms of de
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Contents
  • Contents
  • List of figures and tables
  • List of contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Curing the democratic malaise with democratic innovations
  • PART I: New and old forms of (direct) democracy
  • 1. Implementing popular preferences: is direct democracy the answer?
  • 2. Direct democracy: the Swiss experience
  • 3. Evaluating new vs old forms of citizen engagement and participation
  • PART II: Deliberative democracy
  • 4. Deliberative polling: reflections on an ideal made practical
  • 5. Deliberative democracy and mini-publics
  • 6. Deliberation as an ideal and practice in progressive social movements
  • PART III: Comparing innovations
  • 7. Making better citizens?
  • 8. Impacts of democratic innovations in Europe: findings and desiderata
  • 9. When democratic innovations let the people decide: an evaluation of co-governance experiments
  • Conclusion
  • Democratic innovations: theoretical and empirical challenges of evaluation
  • Index.
ISBN
  • 1-136-57995-8
  • 1-283-52061-3
  • 9786613833068
  • 0-203-15519-X
  • 1-136-57996-6
OCLC
  • 804661522
  • 808675210
Doi
  • 10.4324/9780203155196
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