Evaluating Democratic Innovations
Subtitle: Curing the Democratic Malaise?
By: edited by Brigitte Geissel and Kenneth Newton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York City, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780415669191
Subjects: Direct democracy; Case studies; Deliberative democracy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: List of figures and tables
pagenum: vii; title: List of contributors
pagenum: viii; title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: x; title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: Ken Newton
title: Curing the democratic malaise with democratic innovations
pagenum: 3; label: Part 1
title: New and old forms of (direct) democracy
pagenum: 21; label: Ian Bud
title: Implementing popular preferences: is direct democracy the answer?
pagenum: 23; label: Hanspeter Kriesi
title: Direct democracy, the Swiss experience
pagenum: 39; label: David Beetham
title: Evaluating new vs old forms of citizen engagement and participation
pagenum: 56; label: Part 2
title: Deliberative democracy
pagenum: 69; label: James S. Fishkin
title: Deliberative polling: reflections on an ideal made practical
pagenum: 71; label: Graham Smith
title: Deliberative democracy and mini-publics
pagenum: 90; label: Dieter Rucht
title: Deliberation as an ideal and practise in progressive social movements
pagenum: 112; label: Part 3
title: Comparing innovations
pagenum: 135; label: Ken Newton
title: Making better citizens?
pagenum: 137; label: Brigitte Geissel
title: Impacts of democratic innovations in Europe
pagenum: 163; label: Julien Talpin
title: When democratic innovations let the people decide: an evaluation of co-governance experiments
pagenum: 184; title: Conclusion
pagenum: 207; label: Brigitte Geissel
title: Democratic innovations: theoretical and empirical challenges
pagenum: 209; title: Index
pagenum: 215