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"This book offers a new approach for the future of democracy by advocating giving citizens the power to deliberate and to decide how to govern themselves. Innovatively building on and integrating components of representative, deliberative and participatory theories of democracy with empirical findings, the book provides practices and procedures that support communities of all sizes to develop their own visions of democracy. It re-vitalizes and re-infuses the 'democratic spirit' going back to the roots of democracy as an endeavour by, with and for the people, and should inspire us in our search for the democracy we want to live in. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students in democracy, democratic innovations, deliberation, civic education, and governance and further for policy-makers, civil society groups and activists. It encourages us to reshape democracy based on citizens' perspectives, aspirations, and preferences"-- Provided by publisher.

Democracy. --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics

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"This book offers a new approach for the future of democracy by advocating giving citizens the power to deliberate and to decide how to govern themselves. Innovatively building on and integrating components of representative, deliberative and participatory theories of democracy with empirical findings, the book provides practices and procedures that support communities of all sizes to develop their own visions of democracy. It re-vitalizes and re-infuses the 'democratic spirit' going back to the roots of democracy as an endeavour by, with and for the people, and should inspire us in our search for the democracy we want to live in. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students in democracy, democratic innovations, deliberation, civic education, and governance and further for policy-makers, civil society groups and activists. It encourages us to reshape democracy based on citizens' perspectives, aspirations, and preferences"-- Provided by publisher.

Democracy.

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"This book offers a new approach for the future of democracy by advocating giving citizens the power to deliberate and to decide how to govern themselves. Innovatively building on and integrating components of representative, deliberative and participatory theories of democracy with empirical findings, the book provides practices and procedures that support communities of all sizes to develop their own visions of democracy. It re-vitalizes and re-infuses the 'democratic spirit' going back to the roots of democracy as an endeavour by, with and for the people, and should inspire us in our search for the democracy we want to live in. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students in democracy, democratic innovations, deliberation, civic education, and governance and further for policy-makers, civil society groups and activists. It encourages us to reshape democracy based on citizens' perspectives, aspirations, and preferences"-- Provided by publisher.

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In the face of increasing political disenchantment, many Western governments have experimented, with innovations which aim to enhance the working and quality of democracy as well as increasing citizens' political awareness and understanding of political matters. This text is the most comprehensive account of these various democratic innovations. Written by an outstanding team of international experts it examines the theories behind these democratic innovations, how they have worked in practice and evaluates their success or failure. It explains experiments with new forms of democratic engagement such as: Direct Democracy Deliberative Democracy Co-Governance E-Democracy Drawing on a wide variety of theoretical perspectives and with a broad range of case studies, this is essential reading for all students of democratic theory and all those with an interest in how we might revitalise democracy and increase citizen involvement in the political process.

Political systems --- Political sociology --- Direct democracy --- Deliberative democracy --- Direct democracy - Case studies --- Deliberative democracy - Case studies

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Representative democracy is often seen as a stable institutional system insusceptible to change. However, the preferences of the broad public are changing and representative, group based democracy has lost importance. This development made it necessary to change established ways of decision making and to introduce participatory democratic innovations. Many national and sub-national governments followed this route and implemented various kinds of participatory innovations, i.e. the inclusion of citizens into processes of political will-formation and decisionmaking. The authors analyse and evaluate the various effects of these innovations in Europe, providing a bigger picture of the benefits and disadvantages different democratic innovations can result in. Während zahlreiche Publikationen zum Thema partizipatorische Demokratiereform durch einseitige Betrachtungsperspektiven geprägt sind, [...] vermittelt dieser Sammelband ein wohltuend differenziertes Bild. Brigitte Geißel und Marko Joas ist es gelungen, Beiträge über verschiedene neue Partizipationsformen in unterschiedlichen europäischen Ländern zu versammeln, woraus sich ein vergleichsweise umfassendes Gesamtbild ergibt. [...] Insgesamt bietet der Band somit nicht nur vertiefte Fallstudien, sondern auch Ergebnisse in Bezug auf einen operationalisierbaren Kriterienkatalog, die als Basis weiterer Forschungen dienen können. pw-portal.de, 23.10.2014 Das politische Interesse und das Verhalten der BürgerInnen haben sich verändert und intensiviert. Daher gelten die bisherigen Beteiligungsmöglichkeiten der repräsentativen Demokratie als nicht mehr ausreichend. [...] In diesem Band, herausgegeben von Prof. Dr. Brigitte Geißel und Prof. Dr. Marko Joas, werden die Effekte dieser Innovationen, darunter auch E-Democracy, sowie deren Vor- und Nachteile analysiert. Bundesnetzwerk Bürgerschaftliches Engagement - b-b-e.de, 17.07.2014 [Die Herausgeber] verfolgen das Ziel, nicht nur einen Überblick über die Mannigfaltigkeit demokratischer Innovationen in Europa zu verschaffen, sondern die einzelnen Maßnahmen auch mit Hilfe eines gemeinsamen Analyserahmens zu vergleichen. Damit betritt der Sammelband tatsächlich Neuland, denn die Forschung zu demokratischen Innovationen kommt bislang zumeist nicht über Einzelfallstudien hinaus. [...] Eine weitere große Stärke des Sammelbandes ist seine systematische Anlage und ihre Anwendung auf Europa. Besonders herauszustellen ist, dass sich die Herausgeber die Mühe gemacht haben, alle Fallstudien in einem abschließenden Kapitel vergleichend zusammenzuführen, sodass sich der eilige Leser, der sich vor allem für die Ergebnisse des Vergleiches interessiert, nicht jede der sorgfältig erstellten und schön illustrierten Fallstudien erarbeiten muss. Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen 3/2014

Democracy --- Europe --- Innovation