Ian Marsh, Raymond Miller

Democratic Decline and Democratic Renewal

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines why people feel disconnected from contemporary politics and suggests what might be done to address current political discontent.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 722g
• ISBN-13: 9781107025684
• ISBN-10: 1107025680
• Artikelnr.: 35487678

Autorenporträt

Ian Marsh is Professor in the Australian Innovation Research Centre at the University of Tasmania.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction: 1. The decline and renewal of democratic governance:
a theoretical framework; Part II. Political Change in Britain: The
Development of a Strategy Gap: 2. The mass party system and state strategic
capacity in Britain; 3. Neo-liberalism and the decline of state strategic
capacity; 4. Why the gap in strategic capacity poses a systemic challenge;
Part III. Political Change in Australia: The Development of a
Representation Gap: 5. Everyman is king: representation and strategic
capacity in Australia's mass party period; 6. Pluralised society,
individualised politics: the gap between citizens and the formal political
system; 7. Why a representation gap poses a systemic challenge (and the
populist alternative); Part IV. Political Change in New Zealand: Voting
Reform, Multi-Party Politics and Minority Government: 8. Identities and
capabilities in the mass party era in New Zealand; 9. Neo-liberalism,
social change and democracy; 10. Is electoral reform sufficient?; Part V.
Democratic Renewal: 11. Reconnecting citizens to the political system; 12.
The prospect for democratic renewal.