Munch and his colleagues examine how democracy works in the
practice of political regulation. Based on empirical research on
the politics of clean air in the United Kingdom, France, Germany,
and the United States, they provide a comparative sociological
perspective. Thus, they look at social change and social
integration rather than issues of governance and administration in
terms of effectiveness and democratic legitimation.
The analysis looks at how different forms of democracy given in
the four countries achieve more or less in the political regulation
of clean air in terms of societal innovation, conflict settlement,
and consensus formation. They concentrate on the network of actors
involved, their professions included with their concepts of
rationality, the institutional rules of policymaking, and the
cultural ideas that are invoked in the legitimation of procedures
and decisions. While each country has developed a peculiar form of
democracy-representative democracy in the UK, etatist-republican
democracy in France, consensus and rule of law democracy in
Germany, and multilevel pluralist competitive democracy in the
US-they conclude that challenges of the established regulatory
style and political order are pushing each country towards a more
open democracy. Scholars and students in comparative sociology and
political science as well as environmentalists will find the study
of particular interest.
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