Democracies have developed a sense of crisis regarding levels of
civic engagement and their own legitimacy, prompting government
initiatives to reform the institutions and procedures of liberal
democracy to provide more opportunities for political participation
and bring citizens back in.
"Participatory Democracy and Political Participation" provides the
first systematic evaluation of most visible and explicit efforts to
engineer political participation via institutional reforms.
Policies of democratic reform aim to increase the level of
political participation by implementing institutions of
participatory democracy. Such policies are debated in established
democracies as means to counter downward trends in political
participation. However, there is little empirical evidence whether
this approach is able to actually increase or sustain political
engagement without compromising other values of modern government.
- This new volume investigates this topical issue by integrating
three different research approaches:
- Theoretical analyses that aim to bridge the gap between the
normative and the empirical level of participatory democracy.
- Comparative large case analyses that focus on the empirical link
between participatory institutions and political behavior.
Case studies on the structure, the politics and the behavioral
effects of concrete reform initiatives within various established
European democracies. The leading contributors analyze
participatory institutions on the basis of empirical models of
democracy such as direct democracy, civil society and responsive
government and analyze the impact of these models on political
behavior in general.
Providing adetailed assessment of democratic reform, this book will
be of strong interest to students and researchers of political
theory, democracy and comparative politics.
General
| Imprint: |
Routledge
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science |
| Release date: |
October 2006 |
| First published: |
November 2006 |
| Editors: |
Thomas Zittel
• Dieter Fuchs
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
250 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-415-37186-5 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Politics & government >
General
|
| LSN: |
0-415-37186-4 |
| Barcode: |
9780415371865 |
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