Democracy Transformed?

Expanding Political Opportunities in Advanced Industrial Democracies
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-926499-5
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

The popular pressures for reforms of the democratic process have mounted across the OECD nations over the past generation. In response, democratic institutions are changing, evolving, and expanding in ways that may alter the structure of the democratic process. These changes include reforms of the electoral process, the expansion of referendums, introduction of open government provisions, and more access points for direct political involvement. Indeed, some observers claim that we are witnessing the most fundamental transformation of the democratic process since the creation of mass democracy in the early 20th Century. This international team of distinguished scholars 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, but also carries challenges for democracies to include all its citizens and govern effectively in an environment of complex government.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cain, Bruce

Dalton, Russell J.

Scarrow, Susan E.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Tables

- Figures

- Notes on Contributors

- Foreword

- Introduction

- 1: Russell J. Dalton, Susan E. Scarrow, and Bruce Cain: New Forms of Democracy?: Reform and Transformation of Democratic Institutions

- Part I: Electoral Change

- 2: Russell J. Dalton and Mark Gray: Expanding the Electoral Marketplace

- 3: Susan E. Scarrow: Making Elections More Direct? Reducing the Role of Parties in Elections

- 4: Miki Caul Kittilson and Susan E. Scarrow: Political Parties and the Rhetoric and Realities of Democratization

- 5: Shaun Bowler, Elisabeth Carter, and David M. Farrell: Changing Party Access to Politics

- Part II: Change in Non-electoral Institutions

- 6: Bruce Cain, Sergio Fabrinni, and Patrick Egan: Toward More Open Democracies: The Expansion of Freedom of Information Laws

- 7: Christopher Ansell and Jane Gingrich: The Decentralization of Governance: Regional and Local Delegation

- 8: Christopher Ansell and Jane Gingrich: Reforming the Administrative State

- 9: Rachel Chichowski and Alec Stone Sweet: Participation, Representative Democracy, and the Courts

- Part III: The Consequences of Political Reform

- 10: Mark Warren: A Second Transformation of Democracy

- 11: Russell J. Dalton, Bruce Cain, and Susan E. Scarrow: Democratic Publics and Democratic Institutions: New Forms or Adaptation

Über Autor(innen)

Cain, Bruce (Director, Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA) / Dalton, Russell J. (Professor of Political Science, University of California, Irvine, USA) / Scarrow, Susan E. (Associate Professor of Political Science, Univ