1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790481603321

Titolo

Evaluating democratic innovations : curing the democratic malaise? / / edited by Brigitte Geissel and Kenneth Newton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-57995-8

1-283-52061-3

9786613833068

0-203-15519-X

1-136-57996-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GeisselBrigitte

NewtonKenneth <1940->

Disciplina

321.8

Soggetti

Direct democracy

Deliberative democracy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents --  List of figures and tables --  List of contributors --  Acknowledgements --  Introduction --  Curing the democratic malaise with democratic innovations --  PART I: New and old forms of (direct) democracy --  1. Implementing popular preferences: is direct democracy the answer? --  2. Direct democracy: the Swiss experience --  3. Evaluating new vs old forms of citizen engagement and participation --  PART II: Deliberative democracy --  4. Deliberative polling: reflections on an ideal made practical --  5. Deliberative democracy and mini-publics --  6. Deliberation as an ideal and practice in progressive social movements --  PART III: Comparing innovations --  7. Making better citizens? --  8. Impacts of democratic innovations in Europe: findings and desiderata --  9. When democratic innovations let the people decide: an evaluation of co-governance experiments --  Conclusion --  Democratic innovations: theoretical and empirical challenges of evaluation --  Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In the face of increasing political disenchantment, many Western governments have experimented, with innovations which aim to



enhance the working and quality of democracy as well as increasing citizens' political awareness and understanding of political matters. This text is the most comprehensive account of these various democratic innovations. Written by an outstanding team of international experts it examines the theories behind these democratic innovations, how they have worked in practice and evaluates their success or failure. It explains experiments with new forms of de

2.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991002942849707536

Titolo

Il fascismo : le interpretazioni dei contemporanei e degli storici / [a cura di] Renzo De Felice ; prefazione di Giovanni Sabbatucci

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma ; Bari : Laterza, 1998

ISBN

8842055360

Edizione

[Nuova ed.]

Descrizione fisica

XXXVII, 841 p. ; 22 cm

Collana

Storia e società (Laterza)

Storia e società / Laterza

Altri autori (Persone)

De Felice, Renzo

Sabbatucci, Giovanni

Disciplina

945.0915072

Soggetti

Fascismo - Europa

Nazionalsocialismo - Europa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991004384038107536

Autore

West, Morris

Titolo

La Salamandra / Morris West ; traduzione di Maria Basaglia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : Mondadori, 1974

Titolo uniforme

The Salamander

Descrizione fisica

362 p. ; 21 cm

Collana

Omnibus

Disciplina

823.914

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia