ISBN:
9780230502185
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (283 pages)
Series Statement:
PSA Yearbooks Ser. v.Vol. 2000
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.2
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This collection brings together leading political scientists in order to address the challenges faced by democracy in the twenty-first century. The contributors tackle the changing nature of democratic ideas, in particular equality in society and the satisfaction of citizens. They examine changing patterns of political involvement, from voting to new forms of participation and protest using the Internet and new technologies. Finally, they look at the challenge to democracy posed by the changing nature of state institutions: party systems, bureaucracy and e-government, regulation and the processes of institutional development.
Abstract:
Cover -- Challenges to Democracy -- Contents -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Challenges for Democracy: Equality and Satisfaction -- 1 Political Equality in the Coming Century -- 2 Levelling Down -- 3 The Political Economy of Human Happiness -- 4 Freedom and the Achievement of Happiness -- Part II Challenges from Society: Changing Patterns of Political Involvement -- 5 Is There a Crisis of Democracy in Great Britain? Turnout at General Elections Reconsidered -- 6 Social Capital, Civic Literacy and Political Participation: Explaining Differences in Voter Turnout -- 7 A Virtuous Circle? The Impact of Political Communications in Post-Industrial Democracies -- 8 Hacktivism: Direct Action on the Electronic Flows of Information Societies -- 9 Deliberative Democracy and Referendums -- 10 Creating Spaces of Deliberation in Barcelona: It's Good to Talk? -- Part III Challenges from the State: Changing Institutions -- 11 External Influences on Party Development and Transnational Party Cooperation: the Case of Post-Communist Europe -- 12 Promoting Parties and Party Systems in New Democracies: Is There Anything the 'International Community' Can Do? -- 13 Regulatory Accountability: Towards a Single Citizen-Consumer Model? -- 14 E-governance: Weber's Revenge? -- 15 Decentralization and Development: The New Panacea -- Index.
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