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Complementary Democracy
Author | : Matt Qvortrup,Daniela Vancic |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2022-10-03 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9783110747331 |
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Democracy is on the run, and elected governments are suffering from a legitimacy crisis. Legislatures are increasingly seen as unrepresentative. To give legitimacy to democratic government, experts argue that we need more democracy and more opportunities for direct citizen participation. Representative democracy needs to be complemented by forms of direct engagement, such as referendums, popular votes, the recall, citizens’ juries, eDemocracy, etc. This is what we term Complementary Democracy. In this book experts from the worlds of practice and theory come together to explain – and occasionally critique – these complements to representative democracy. The volume provides an invaluable starting point for anyone who wants to know more about the new directions of democratic governance, and hopes to inspire those who seek to build stronger democracies.
Public Administration and Democracy
Author | : Anthony M. Bertelli,Lindsey J. Schwartz |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 2023-01-31 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781009217644 |
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This Element argues for a complementarity principle – governance values should complement political values – as a guide for designing the structures and procedures of public administration. It argues that the value-congruity inherent in the complementarity principle is indispensable to administrative responsibility. It identifies several core democratic values and critically assesses systems of collaborative governance, representative bureaucracy, and participatory policymaking in light of those values. It shows that the complementarity principle, applied to these different designs, facilitates administrative responsibility by making the structures themselves more consistent with democratic principles without compromising their aims. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Innovative Citizen Participation and New Democratic Institutions Catching the Deliberative Wave
Author | : OECD |
Publsiher | : OECD Publishing |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2020-06-10 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9789264725904 |
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Public authorities from all levels of government increasingly turn to Citizens' Assemblies, Juries, Panels and other representative deliberative processes to tackle complex policy problems ranging from climate change to infrastructure investment decisions. They convene groups of people representing a wide cross-section of society for at least one full day – and often much longer – to learn, deliberate, and develop collective recommendations that consider the complexities and compromises required for solving multifaceted public issues.
Voting from Abroad
Author | : Andrew Ellis ,Carlos Navarro ,Isabel Morales ,Maria Gratschew, Nadja Braun |
Publsiher | : International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2007-11-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9789185391660 |
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The constitutions of many countries guarantee the right to vote for all citizens. However, in reality, voters who are outside their home country when elections take place are often disenfranchised because of a lack of procedures enabling them to exercise that right. Voting from Abroad: The International IDEA Handbook examines the theoretical and practical issues surrounding external voting. It provides an overview of external voting provisions in 115 countries and territories around the world, including a map illustrating the regional spread.
Democracy Without Shortcuts
Author | : Cristina Lafont |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2020-01-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780198848189 |
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This book articulates a participatory conception of deliberative democracy that takes the democratic ideal of self-government seriously. It aims to improve citizens' democratic control and vindicate the value of citizens' participation against conceptions that threaten to undermine it. The book critically analyzes deep pluralist, epistocratic, and lottocratic conceptions of democracy. Their defenders propose various institutional ''shortcuts'' to help solve problems of democratic governance such as overcoming disagreements, citizens' political ignorance, or poor-quality deliberation. However, all these shortcut proposals require citizens to blindly defer to actors over whose decisions they cannot exercise control. Implementing such proposals would therefore undermine democracy. Moreover, it seems naive to assume that a community can reach better outcomes 'faster' if it bypasses the beliefs and attitudes of its citizens. Unfortunately, there are no 'shortcuts' to make a community better than its members. The only road to better outcomes is the long, participatory road that is taken when citizens forge a collective will by changing one another's hearts and minds. However difficult the process of justifying political decisions to one another may be, skipping it cannot get us any closer to the democratic ideal. Starting from this conviction, the book defends a conception of democracy ''without shortcuts''. This conception sheds new light on long-standing debates about the proper scope of public reason, the role of religion in politics, and the democratic legitimacy of judicial review. It also proposes new ways to unleash the democratic potential of institutional innovations such as deliberative minipublics.
Republicanism and Democracy
Author | : Skadi Siiri Krause,Dirk Jörke |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2022-11-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9783031157806 |
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This book discusses whether democracy and republicanism are identical, complementary, or contradicting ideas. The rediscovery of classic republicanism a few decades ago made it clear how profoundly modern notions of democracy had been shaped by the republican tradition. But defining these two concepts remains difficult, and the views diverge widely. The overarching aim of this book is to discuss the extent to which democracy and republicanism are identical, complementary or mutually contradicting ideals / ideas. Pursuing this open approach to the subject means calling into question a widely used formula according to which modern democracy is composed of liberal principles such as individualism, the rule of law and human rights, on the one hand, and of republican principles such as focusing on the common good and popular sovereignty, on the other. This book will appeal to students, researches, and scholars of political science interested in a better understanding of political theory and political history.
The Paradox of Democracy in Latin America
Author | : Katherine Isbester |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781442601963 |
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What becomes clear throughout is that there is a paradox at the heart of Latin America's democracies. Despite decades of struggle to replace authoritarian dictatorships with electoral democracies, solid economic growth (leading up to the global credit crisis), and increased efforts by the state to extend the benefits of peace and prosperity to the poor, democracy - as a political system - is experiencing declining support, and support for authoritarianism is on the rise.
Liberalism and Democracy
Author | : Norberto Bobbio |
Publsiher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 99 |
Release | : 2020-05-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781789605259 |
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Liberalism and democracy have long been assumed to exist in a complementary relationship, if not always an entirely easy one. This book scrupulously investigates the reason for this alliance and the sources of its tensions, providing a lucid and succinct introduction to some of the subject's central concepts and concerns.