Democracy Transformed?: Expanding Political Opportunities in Advanced Industrial DemocraciesBruce E. Cain, Russell J. Dalton, Susan E. Scarrow 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. |
Contents
New Forms of Democracy? Reform and Transformation | 1 |
Expanding the Electoral Marketplace | 23 |
Making Elections More Direct? Reducing the Role | 44 |
Political Parties and the Rhetoric and Realities of Democratization | 59 |
Changing Party Access to Elections | 81 |
63 | 107 |
The Expansion | 115 |
Trends in Decentralization | 140 |
Reforming the Administrative State | 164 |
Participation Representative Democracy and the Courts | 192 |
A Second Transformation of Democracy? 22323 250 | 223 |
Democratic Publics and Democratic Institutions | 250 |
276 | |
305 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
administrative procedures advanced industrial democracies advisory advocacy democracy agencies agenda arenas assess Australia Austria authorities autonomy ballot Belgium campaign Canada candidates cent central changes Chapter citizen access citizen participation corporatist Council decentralization reforms decision-making decisions deliberative deliberative democracy democratic process Denmark developed direct democracy documents domain effective electoral systems elites Environmental equal European Union example expanded federal Finland FOIA forms France Germany important increase individuals influence initiatives institutions interest groups involved Ireland issues Italy Japan judges juries legislative levels of government litigation majoritarian ment municipal neo-liberal Netherlands norm Norway OECD OECD countries offices ombudsman opportunities organizations parliament parliamentary participatory policy-making political parties potential referendums regional representative democracy responsibility role rules social statute Stone Sweet structure sub-national government subventions Sweden Switzerland Table tion traditional transparency trend United United Kingdom University Press vote voters Zealand
References to this book
Civil Societies and Social Movements: Potentials and Problems Derrick Purdue No preview available - 2007 |
Citizens, Democracy, and Markets Around the Pacific Rim: Congruence Theory ... Russell J. Dalton,To-chʻŏl Sin No preview available - 2006 |