Reforming Democracy
Subtitle: Institutional Engineering in Western Europe
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780198779582
Subjects: Democracy
Description: This study provides a better empirical understanding of the world of democratic reforms in consolidated democracies, thanks to a new data-set covering six dimensions of reform in 18 European countries. Secondly, the book provides evidence about the link between the lack of political support and democratic reforms, and the role of electoral shifts in fostering reforms. Thirdly, this research shows that the final outcome of a given reform depends on the type of reform at stake and on the process used during the phase of discussion of the reform, though case studies in Ireland, France and Italy.