Bruce E. Cain / Russell J. Dalton / Susan E. Scarrow (eds.)

Democracy Transformed?

Expanding Political Opportunities in Advanced Industrial Democracies
Herausgeber: Cain, Bruce E.; Scarrow, Susan E.; Dalton, Russell J.

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Produktbeschreibung

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 points 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9780199291649
• ISBN-10: 0199291640
• Artikelnr.: 21079710

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

* 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