Matt Qvortrup

The politics of participation (eBook, ePUB)

From Athens to e-democracy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Is democracy in crisis? Not according to this book! In this fascinating study, Professor Qvortrup shows that citizens are engaged in politics like never before by voting in referendums and participating in demonstrations and other forms of 'low politics'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847796981
• Artikelnr.: 44000352

Autorenporträt

Matt Qvortrup is Professor of Political Science at the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction A note on the data PART I: THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF CITIZEN
POLITICS 1. Understanding citizen politics: a methodological overview 2.
Participation and democracy from the Greeks to our times PART II: EMPIRICAL
FOUNDATIONS OF CITIZEN POLITICS 3. An empirical approach to citizen
politics 4. Bottom-up politics: riots and extra-parliamentary politics 5.
Top-down initiated citizen politics: E-democracy, citizen juries and
designer politics 6. Citizens as voters 7. Excursus: The power of the
representatives PART III: CASE STUDIES IN CITIZEN DEMOCRACY 8. Decisions to
hold referendums in the UK 9. Voting by the people: the referendums on the
European constitution 10. Absentee voting in a comparative perspective 11.
Quo vadis democracy? References