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.
- ISBN13 9783847401131
- Publish Date 20 November 2013
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 18 July 2016
- Publish Country DE
- Imprint Verlag Barbara Budrich
- Format Paperback
- Pages 267
- Language English