Political Participation, Diffused Governance, Transformation of - Patterns of Change

List of contents

Part I: The Changing Democratic System 1. Patterns of Change 2. The Three Sides of the Coin: Unpacking Political Participation 3. Structuring Diffusion: Explaining Levels of Political Participation Part II: Patterns of Participation: The Impact of Competence Diffusion 4. Participation and Horizontal Diffusion 5. Participation and Vertical Diffusion 6. Political Participation and Diagonal Diffusion Part III: Democracy at the Crossroads? Some Conclusions 7. Levels of Political Participation and Multi-Directional Diffusion 8. Patterns of Change: Diffused Democracy

About the author

Yvette Peters is a Researcher at the University of Bergen, Norway, and has been Assistant Professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, before that.

Summary

This book examines different forms of political participation in democracies, and in what way the delegation of public responsibilities—or, the diffusion of politics—has affected patterns of participation since the 1980s.

Product details

• Authors: Yvette Peters, Yvette (University of Bergen Peters, Peters Yvette
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367878276
• ISBN: 978-0-367-87827-6
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: Democratization and Autocratization Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Political structures: democracy, Comparative Politics, Politics and government, Political structures / systems: democracy