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| Description | | - Comparative study of 18 advanced industrial democracies over 40 years of institutional change, presented by a group of leading international scholars
- First coverage of how democratic institutions and processes are changing
- Multi-disciplinary approach - of interest to scholars woking in electoral politics, policy making, public administration, and democratic theory
| 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. |
Readership: Scholars and students of Political Science, especially those interested in democratic studies, political participation, and electoral studies
| Contents |
Foreword
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Austin Ranney
Introduction
1.
New Forms of Democracy?: Reform and Transformation of Democratic Institutions
,
Russell J. Dalton, Susan E. Scarrow, and Bruce Cain
Part I: Electoral Change
2.
Expanding the Electoral Marketplace
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Russell J. Dalton and Mark Gray
3.
Making Elections More Direct? Reducing the Role of Parties in Elections
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Susan E. Scarrow
4.
Political Parties and the Rhetoric and Realities of Democratization
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Miki Caul Kittilson and Susan E. Scarrow
5.
Changing Party Access to Politics
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Shaun Bowler, Elisabeth Carter, and David M. Farrell
Part II: Change in Non-electoral Institutions
6.
Toward More Open Democracies: The Expansion of Freedom of Information Laws
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Bruce Cain, Sergio Fabrinni, and Patrick Egan
7.
The Decentralization of Governance: Regional and Local Delegation
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Christopher Ansell and Jane Gingrich
8.
Reforming the Administrative State
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Christopher Ansell and Jane Gingrich
9.
Participation, Representative Democracy, and the Courts
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Rachel Chichowski and Alec Stone Sweet
Part III: The Consequences of Political Reform
10.
A Second Transformation of Democracy
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Mark Warren
11.
Democratic Publics and Democratic Institutions: New Forms or Adaptation
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Russell J. Dalton, Bruce Cain, and Susan E. Scarrow
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Edited by Bruce E. Cain, Director, Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley,
Russell J. Dalton, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Irvine, and
Susan E. Scarrow, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Houston
| Contributors:Chris Ansell, University of California, Berkeley
Shaun Bowler, University of California, Riverside
Bruce Cain, University of California, Riverside
Rachel Chichowski, University of Washington
Russell Dalton, University of California, Irvine
Patrick Egan, University of California, Berkeley
Sergio Fabrinni, University of Trento
David Farrell, University of Manchester
Jane Gingrich,
University of California, Berkeley
Mark Gray, Georgetown University, Washington DC
Miki Caul Kittilson, University of Texas
Susan Scarrow, University of Houston
Alec Stone Sweet, Nuffield College, Oxford |
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