Complex Democracy: Varieties, Crises, And Transformations
by Volker Schneider /
2015 / English / PDF
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This book presents a state-of-the art collection of original
contributions on democracy, addressing three related themes: the
complexity of modern democracies and their structural diversity;
coping strategies of democracies in times of crises; and current
and potential trajectories and transformations of democracy. The
first part of the book maps the democratic landscape by revealing
the diversity of democratic political systems, through either
comparative analysis or case studies on the specific nature of
political and administrative systems in interest intermediation
and identity construction. The second part presents articles that
investigate the response of democracies to times of crisis, with
an emphasis on political economies and policy processes within
the European Union. The third part offers studies on democracies
that explore their adaptive potential in the context of
globalization and in that of broader technical, institutional or
cultural changes.
This book presents a state-of-the art collection of original
contributions on democracy, addressing three related themes: the
complexity of modern democracies and their structural diversity;
coping strategies of democracies in times of crises; and current
and potential trajectories and transformations of democracy. The
first part of the book maps the democratic landscape by revealing
the diversity of democratic political systems, through either
comparative analysis or case studies on the specific nature of
political and administrative systems in interest intermediation
and identity construction. The second part presents articles that
investigate the response of democracies to times of crisis, with
an emphasis on political economies and policy processes within
the European Union. The third part offers studies on democracies
that explore their adaptive potential in the context of
globalization and in that of broader technical, institutional or
cultural changes.