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Informationen zum Autor Yannis Papadopoulos is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Klappentext This major new text provides an original and comprehensive assessment of key contemporary trends in democratic politics and governance across major established democracies of the world. 'Makes a strong and provocative argument that as democracy has spread to more nations internationally, it has become hollowed out as a means of popular governance. This is a significant book that asks important questions and its synthesis of diverse literatures makes a valuable contribution to the on-going debate on how democracy is changing.' - Russell Dalton, University of California, Irvine, US'A comprehensive survey of the changing practices and citizen reactions to them in the 'real-existing' democracies of Western Europe and North America... I would not be surprised if it provides the theoretical and conceptual framework for what is going to be the most controversial issue in political science for some time to come.' - Philippe C. Schmitter, European University Institute, Italy Zusammenfassung This major new text provides an original and comprehensive assessment of key contemporary trends in democratic politics and governance across major established democracies of the world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Party Democracy Challenged 2. Mediatization and Audience Democracy 3. Internationalization, Europeanization and Multi-Level Governance 4. Collaborative Governance and Cooperative Policy-Making 5. Empowering the Citizen or the Customer? 6. Limits to Majority Rule: Agentification and Judicialization 7. The Winter of Democracy?
