The Future of Self-Governing, Thriving Democracies

Democratic Innovations By, With and For the People
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-28506-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 392 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Democratic Innovations

This book offers a new approach for the future of democracy by advocating to give citizens the power to deliberate and to decide how to govern themselves.

Innovatively building on and integrating components of representative, deliberative and participatory theories of democracy with empirical findings, the book provides practices and procedures that support communities of all sizes to develop their own visions of democracy. It revitalizes and reinfuses the ‘democratic spirit’ going back to the roots of democracy as an endeavor by, with and for the people, and should inspire us in our search for the democracy we want to live in.

This book is of key interest to scholars and students in democracy, democratic innovations, deliberation, civic education and governance and further for policy-makers, civil society groups and activists. It encourages us to reshape democracy based on citizens’ perspectives, aspirations and preferences.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Geissel, Brigitte

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: A Visionary Thriving Democracy Part 1: Thriving Democracies: Principles of self-governing 1. Citizens decide on how they govern themselves 2. Citizens monitor continuous adaption 3. Citizens’ will-formation is tightly connected to decision-making Part 2: Why existing democracies fail to realize self-governing 4. Self-governing: citizens’ preferences and competencies 5. No established practice suffices to realizing self-governing 6. No existing experiment suffices to realizing self-governing Part 3: Thriving Democracies: Visionary setups for realizing self-governing 7. Practices for will-formation and decision-making 8. Procedures connecting will-formation and decision-making 9. Novel public agencies and legal norms. Conclusion: Thriving Democracies – our future

Über Autor(innen)

Brigitte Geissel is Professor of Political Science and Political Sociology and Head of the Research Unit ‘Democratic Innovations’ at Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany.