Evaluating Democratic Innovations : Curing the Democratic Malaise?

Evaluating Democratic Innovations : Curing the Democratic Malaise? / K Newton.

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 comprehens...

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Main Author: Newton, K. (Kenneth)
Other Authors: Geissel, Brigitte
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Subjects:
Direct democracy.
Deliberative democracy.
Direct democracy > Case studies.
Deliberative democracy > Case studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Democracy.
Deliberative democracy
Direct democracy
Case studies
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; 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 movementsPART 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.

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