Democracy transformed? : expanding political opportunities in advanced industrial democracies / edited by Bruce Cain, Russell J. Dalton, and Susan Scarrow.
"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...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2003.
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| Series: | Comparative politics (Oxford University Press).
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| Online Access: | Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Summary: | "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."--Publisher description. |
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| Item Description: | Description based on print version record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 electronic document (xviii, 309 p.) |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-303) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0191532681 0191603252 0199783985 1282052799 9780191532689 9780191603259 9780199783984 9781282052796 |