Gebundenes Buch

Referendums and Representative Democracy

Responsiveness, Accountability and Deliberation

Herausgeber: Setälä, Maija; Schiller, Theo

Beschreibung

This volume analyses how the use of referendums affects the central functions and characteristics of representative democracy and provides a balanced account on the interaction between referendums, representative institutions and actors.

Autor

Maija Setälä is an Academy Research Fellow at the University of Turku, Finland. She has studied democratic theory, referendums and deliberative democracy, and has published books and journal articles on these topics. Theo Schiller is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Philipps University Marburg, Germany, and Head of the Centre of Citizen Participation and Direct Democracy. He published books and articles on direct democracy and German and European politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9780415481038
• ISBN-10: 0415481031
• Artikelnr.: 26985047