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Democracy transformed? : expanding political opportunities in advanced industrial democracies / edited by Bruce Cain, Russell J. Dalton, and Susan Scarrow.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Comparative politics (Oxford University Press)
- Comparative politics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democracy--History--20th century--Congresses.
- Democracy.
- Elections--History--20th century--Congresses.
- Elections.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (328 p.)
- Other Title:
- Democracy transformed
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This text assembles the evidence of how democratic institutions and processes are changing and considers the larger implications of these reforms for the nature of democracy. The findings point to a new style of democratic politics that expands the nature of democracy.
- Contents:
- ""Preface and Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Tables""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Foreword""; ""1. New Forms of Democracy? Reform and Transformation of Democratic Institutions""; ""I.Electoral Change""; ""2. Expanding the Electoral Marketplace""; ""3. Making Elections More Direct? Reducing the Role of Parties in Elections""; ""4. Political Parties and the Rhetoric and Realities of Democratization""; ""5. Changing Party Access to Elections""; ""II.Change in Non-electoral Institutions""
- ""6. Towards More Open Democracies: The Expansion of Freedom of Information Laws""""7. Trends in Decentralization""; ""8. Reforming the Administrative State""; ""9. Participation, Representative Democracy, and the Courts""; ""III.The Consequences of Political Reform""; ""10. A Second Transformation of Democracy?""; ""11. Democratic Publics and Democratic Institutions""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [276]-303) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-929164-0
- 0-19-153268-1
- 9786612052798
- 1-282-05279-9
- OCLC:
- 320964853
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