Democracy transformed? : expanding political opportunities in advanced industrial democracies
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Democracy transformed? : expanding political opportunities in advanced industrial democracies
（Comparative politics）
Oxford University Press, 2006, c2003
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Originally published: 2003
Includes bibliographical references (p. [276]-303) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Comparative Politics is a series for students and teachers of political science that deals with contemporary issues in comparative government and politics. The General Editors are Max Kaase, Professor of Political Science, Vice President and Dean, School of Humanities and Social Science, International University Bremen, Germany; and Kenneth Newton, Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Southampton. The series is published in association with the European
Consortium for Political Research.
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 point 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.
Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I: ELECTORAL CHANGE
- PART II: CHANGE IN NON-ELECTORAL INSTITUTIONS
- PART III: THE CONSEQUENCES OF POLITICAL REFORM
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