Democracy transformed? : expanding political opportunities in advanced industrial democracies / edited by Bruce Cain, Russell J. Dalton, and Susan Scarrow.

This text assembles the evidence of how democratic institutions and processes are changing and considers the larger implications of these reforms for the nature of democracy. The findings point to a new style of democratic politics that expands the nature of democracy.

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Other Authors: Cain, Bruce E., Dalton, Russell J., Scarrow, Susan E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Series:Comparative politics (Oxford University Press)
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Austin Ranney
  • New forms of democracy? Reform and transformation of democratic institutions / Russell J. Dalton, Susan E. Scarrow and Bruce E. Cain
  • Expanding the electoral marketplace / Russell J. Dalton and Mark Gray
  • Making elections more direct? Reducing the role of parties in elections / Susan E. Scarrow
  • Political parties and the rhetoric and realities of democratization / Miki Caul Kittilson and Susan E. Scarrow
  • Changing party access to elections / Shaun Bowler, Elisabeth Carter and David M. Farrell
  • Towards more open democracies : the expansion of freedom of information laws / Bruce E. Cain, Patrick Egan and Sergio Fabbrini
  • Trends in decentralization / Christopher Ansell and Jane Gingrich
  • Reforming the administrative state / Christopher Ansell and Jane Gingrich
  • Participation, representative democracy, and the courts / Rachel A. Cichowski and Alec Stone Sweet
  • A second transformation of democracy? / Mark E. Warren
  • Democratic publics and democratic institutions / Russell J. Dalton, Bruce E. Cain and Susan E. Scarrow.