03565oam 2200697I 450 991046176220332120200520144314.01-283-52061-397866138330680-203-15519-X1-136-57996-610.4324/9780203155196 (CKB)2670000000230915(EBL)987954(OCoLC)804661522(SSID)ssj0000750838(PQKBManifestationID)12348453(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000750838(PQKBWorkID)10749576(PQKB)10325989(MiAaPQ)EBC987954(Au-PeEL)EBL987954(CaPaEBR)ebr10588986(CaONFJC)MIL383306(OCoLC)808675210(EXLCZ)99267000000023091520180706d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEvaluating democratic innovations curing the democratic malaise? /edited by Brigitte Geissel and Kenneth NewtonAbingdon, Oxon :Routledge,2012.1 online resource (233 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-66920-0 0-415-66919-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Title; Copyright; 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-publics6 Deliberation as an ideal and practice in progressive social movementsPART 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; IndexIn 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 deDirect democracyDeliberative democracyDirect democracyCase studiesDeliberative democracyCase studiesElectronic books.Direct democracy.Deliberative democracy.Direct democracyDeliberative democracy321.8Geissel Brigitte990008Newton Kenneth1940-141230MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461762203321Evaluating democratic innovations2273142UNINA