Democracy Transformed?

Expanding Political Opportunities in Advanced Industrial Democracies
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-19-929164-9
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 500 g

Comparative Politics is a series for students and teachers of political science that deals with contemporary issues in comparative government and politics. The General Editors are Max Kaase, Professor of Political Science, Vice President and Dean, School of Humanities and Social Science, International University Bremen, Germany; and Kenneth Newton, Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Southampton. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research.

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.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of Political Science, especially those interested in democratic studies, political participation, and electoral studies

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cain, Bruce E.

Dalton, Russell J.

Scarrow, Susan E.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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)

Edited by Bruce E. Cain, Director, Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Russell J. Dalton, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Irvine, and Susan E. Scarrow, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Houston

Contributors: Chris Ansell, University of California, Berkeley Shaun Bowler, University of California, Riverside Bruce Cain, University of California, Riverside Rachel Chichowski, University of Washington Russell Dalton, University of California, Irvine Patrick Egan, University of California, Berkeley Sergio Fabrinni, University of Trento David Farrell, University of Manchester Jane Gingrich, University of California, Berkeley Mark Gray, Georgetown University, Washington DC Miki Caul Kittilson, University of Texas Susan Scarrow, University of Houston Alec Stone Sweet, Nuffield College, Oxford