Democracy Transformed?
Subtitle: Expanding Political Opportunities in Advanced Industrial Democracies (Comparative Politics)
Contributors: Bruce E. Cain (Editor); Russell J. Dalton (Editor); Susan E. Scarrow (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: January 21, 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780199291649
First sentence: Over the past quarter century, citizens and political elites in advanced industrial democracies have displayed a growing willingness to question whether a fundamental commitment to the principles and institutions of representative democracy is sufficient to sustain the legitimacy and effectiveness of current mechanisms of self-government.