LEADER 03746oam 2200685I 450 001 9910790481603321 005 20230717044426.0 010 $a1-136-57995-8 010 $a1-283-52061-3 010 $a9786613833068 010 $a0-203-15519-X 010 $a1-136-57996-6 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203155196 035 $a(CKB)2670000000230915 035 $a(EBL)987954 035 $a(OCoLC)804661522 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000750838 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12348453 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000750838 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10749576 035 $a(PQKB)10325989 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC987954 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL987954 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10588986 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL383306 035 $a(OCoLC)808675210 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB139109 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000230915 100 $a20180706d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aEvaluating democratic innovations $ecuring the democratic malaise? /$fedited by Brigitte Geissel and Kenneth Newton 210 1$aAbingdon, Oxon :$cRoutledge,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (233 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$aPrint version: Evaluating democratic innovations : curing the democratic malaise? Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2012. (OCoLC)703208895 0-415-66920-0 0-415-66919-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents -- 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. 330 $aIn 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 606 $aDirect democracy 606 $aDeliberative democracy 606 $aDirect democracy$vCase studies 606 $aDeliberative democracy$vCase studies 615 0$aDirect democracy. 615 0$aDeliberative democracy. 615 0$aDirect democracy 615 0$aDeliberative democracy 676 $a321.8 701 $aGeissel$b Brigitte$0990008 701 $aNewton$b Kenneth$f1940-$0141230 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790481603321 996 $aEvaluating democratic innovations$93850704 997 $aUNINA