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What Kind of Democracy? - Participation, Inclusiveness and Contestation (Paperback)
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What Kind of Democracy? - Participation, Inclusiveness and Contestation (Paperback)
Series: Conceptualising Comparative Politics
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The broad expansion of non-electoral political participation is
considered one of the major changes in the nature of democratic
citizenship in the 21st century. Most scholars - but also
governments, transnational and subnational political institutions,
and various foundations - have adopted the notion that contemporary
democratic societies need a more politically active citizenry. Yet,
contemporary democracies widely differ in the extent to which their
citizens get involved in politics beyond voting. Why is political
activism other than voting flourishing in the United States, but is
less common in Britain and almost non-existent in post-communist
countries like Bulgaria? The book shows that the answer does not
lie in citizen's predispositions, social capital or institutions of
consensual democracy. Instead, the key to understanding
cross-country differences in political activism beyond voting rests
in democratic structures that combine inclusiveness and
contestation. What Kind of Democracy? is the first book to provide
a theoretically driven empirical analysis of how different types of
democratic arrangements affect individual participation in
non-electoral politics.
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