Responsible Parties : Saving Democracy from Itself / / Frances Rosenbluth, Ian Shapiro

• Autore: Rosenbluth Frances
• Pubblicazione: New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (335 pages)
• Disciplina: 324.2
• Soggetto topico: Political parties
• Persona (resp. second.): ShapiroIan
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE. Misdiagnosing Democracy's Ills -- CHAPTER TWO. The Means and Ends of Democratic Competition -- CHAPTER THREE. Vulnerable Minorities -- CHAPTER FOUR. Big Strong Parties: Westminster -- CHAPTER FIVE. Big Weak Parties: The American Variant -- CHAPTER SIX. Strong Parties in Small European Democracies -- CHAPTER SEVEN. The French Mix -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Of Labradoodles and Poodledors: Germany -- CHAPTER NINE. Wannabe Labradoodles: New Zealand, Italy, Japan, and Mexico -- CHAPTER TEN. Presidentialism with Small Weak Parties: Latin America -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Creeping Authoritarianism in Eastern Europe -- CHAPTER TWELVE. Ways Forward -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: How popular democracy has paradoxically eroded trust in political systems worldwide, and how to restore confidence in democratic politics In recent decades, democracies across the world have adopted measures to increase popular involvement in political decisions. Parties have turned to primaries and local caucuses to select candidates; ballot initiatives and referenda allow citizens to enact laws directly; many places now use proportional representation, encouraging smaller, more specific parties rather than two dominant ones.Yet voters keep getting angrier.There is a steady erosion of trust in politicians, parties, and democratic institutions, culminating most recently in major populist victories in the United States, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere. Frances Rosenbluth and Ian Shapiro argue that devolving power to the grass roots is part of the problem. Efforts to decentralize political decision-making have made governments and especially political parties less effective and less able to address constituents' long-term interests. They argue that to restore confidence in governance, we must restructure our political systems to restore power to the core institution of representative democracy: the political party.
• Titolo autorizzato: Responsible Parties
• ISBN: 9780300241051; 0300241054
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910969632403321
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