Democratic Decline and Democratic Renewal - Political Change in Britain, Australia and New Zealand

Informationen zum Autor Ian Marsh is Professor in the Australian Innovation Research Centre at the University of Tasmania. Raymond Miller is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Auckland. Klappentext Examines why people feel disconnected from contemporary politics and suggests what might be done to address current political discontent. Zusammenfassung While the number of democratic countries continues to expand! democratic practice has contracted! notably in western states where democracy has been longest established. This book examines Britain! Australia and New Zealand in order to explore the origin and trajectory of current political discontent and suggest how this might be remedied. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Introduction: 1. The decline and renewal of democratic governance: a theoretical framework; Part II. Political Change in Britain: The Development of a Strategy Gap: 2. The mass party system and state strategic capacity in Britain; 3. Neo-liberalism and the decline of state strategic capacity; 4. Why the gap in strategic capacity poses a systemic challenge; Part III. Political Change in Australia: The Development of a Representation Gap: 5. Everyman is king: representation and strategic capacity in Australia's mass party period; 6. Pluralised society, individualised politics: the gap between citizens and the formal political system; 7. Why a representation gap poses a systemic challenge (and the populist alternative); Part IV. Political Change in New Zealand: Voting Reform, Multi-Party Politics and Minority Government: 8. Identities and capabilities in the mass party era in New Zealand; 9. Neo-liberalism, social change and democracy; 10. Is electoral reform sufficient?; Part V. Democratic Renewal: 11. Reconnecting citizens to the political system; 12. The prospect for democratic renewal.

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• Authors: Ian Marsh, Ian (University of Tasmania) Marsh, Ian (University of Tasmania) Miller Marsh, Ian Miller Marsh, Marsh Ian, Raymond Miller, Raymond (University of Auckland) Miller, Miller Raymond
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.07.2012
• EAN: 9781107025684
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02568-4
• No. of pages: 394
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Australia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Comparative Politics, New Zealand