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Participatory Democracy and Political Participation: Can Participatory Engineering Bring Citizens Back In? book cover

1st Edition

Participatory Democracy and Political Participation Can Participatory Engineering Bring Citizens Back In?

Edited By Thomas Zittel, Dieter Fuchs Copyright 2007
250 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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A detailed new examination of the initiatives governments are exploring to reform the institutions and procedures of liberal democracy in order to provide more opportunities for political participation and inclusion. Combining theory and empirical case studies, this is a systematic evaluation of the most visible and explicit efforts to engineer political participation via institutional... Read more

Introduction

Democratic reform and political participation

Thomas Zittel and Dieter Fuchs

PART ONE: Democratic reform and political participation: Two theoretical perspectives

1 Participatory democracy and political participation

Thomas Zittel

2 Participatory, liberal, and electronic democracy

Dieter Fuchs

PART TWO: Democratic reform and political responsiveness

3 Political participation in party primaries: Increase in quantity, decrease in quality?

Gideon Rahat and Reuven Y. Hazan

4 Scotland: A new era for participatory democracy?

Peter McLaverty and Sue Morris

PART THREE: Democratic reform and direct democracy

5 The effects of political institutions and city size on political participation: The Swiss case

Simone Baglioni

6 Direct democracy and political participation from a cross-national perspective

Silvano Moeckli

PART FOUR: Democratic reform and civil society

7 "Letting George do it": Accounting for low participation rates?

William A. Maloney and Grant Jordan

8 Trust and governance: How culture and economics constraint the state

Eric M. Uslaner

9 Workplace democracy: Turning workers into citizens?

Neil Carter

PART FIVE: Democratic reform and local government

10 Mobilizing for participatory democracy? The case of democracy policy in Sweden

Stig Montin

11 Democratic renewal in local government? Top down strategies for bottom up involvement

Jacob Aars

Conclusion

Can participatory engineering bring citizens back in?

Thomas Zittel

Biography

Zittel, Thomas; Fuchs, Dieter

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