Democracy transformed?
Subtitle: expanding political opportunities in advanced industrial democracies
By: edited by Bruce E. Cain, Russell J. Dalton and Susan E. Scarrow.
Contributors: Cain, Bruce E.; Dalton, Russell J.; Scarrow, Susan E.
Series: Comparative politics; Comparative politics (Oxford University Press)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780199291649
Subjects: Democracy -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.; Democracy -- Forecasting -- Congresses.; Representative government and representation -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.; Developed countries -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Originally published: 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [276]-303) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Austin Ranney; title: New forms of democracy? Reform and transformation of democratic institutions / Russell J. Dalton, Susan E. Scarrow and Bruce E. Cain; title: Expanding the electoral marketplace / Russell J. Dalton and Mark Gray; title: Making elections more direct? Reducing the role of parties in elections / Susan E. Scarrow; title: Political parties and the rhetoric and realities of democratization / Miki Caul Kittilson and Susan E. Scarrow; title: Changing party access to elections / Shaun Bowler, Elisabeth Carter and David M. Farrell; title: Towards more open democracies : the expansion of freedom of information laws / Bruce E. Cain, Patrick Egan and Sergio Fabbrini; title: Trends in decentralization ; Reforming the administrative state / Christopher Ansell and Jane Gingrich; title: Participation, representative democracy, and the courts / Rachel A. Cichowski and Alec Stone Sweet; title: A second transformation of democracy? / Mark E. Warren; title: Democratic publics and democratic institutions / Russell J. Dalton, Bruce E. Cain and Susan E. Scarrow.