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From http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-926499-6
Democracy Transformed? - Expanding Political Opportunities in Advanced
Industrial Democracies
Edited by Bruce E. Cain, Director, Institute of Governmental Studies,
University of California, Berkeley, Russell J. Dalton, Professor of Political
Science, University of California, Irvine, and Susan E. Scarrow, Associate
Professor of Political Science, University of Houston
Price: £30.00 (Hardback) 0-19-926499-6
2003 328 pages
Description
An international team of distinguished scholars assembles the evidence
of how democratic institutions and processes are changing, and considers
the larger implications of these reforms for the nature of democracy. The
findings point to a new style of democratic politics that expands the nature
of democracy, and also challenges democracies to include all its citizens
and govern effectively in an environment of complex government.
Readership: Scholars and students of Political Science, especially those
interested in democratic studies, political participation, and electoral
studies
Contents/contributors [...]
Austin Ranney: Foreword [...]
Introduction
1 Russell J. Dalton, Susan E. Scarrow, and Bruce Cain: New Forms of
Democracy?: Reform and Transformation of Democratic Institutions
Part I: Electoral Change
2 Russell J. Dalton and Mark Gray: Expanding the Electoral Marketplace
3 Susan E. Scarrow: Making Elections More Direct? Reducing the Role
of Parties in Elections
4 Miki Caul Kittilson and Susan E. Scarrow: Political Parties and the
Rhetoric and Realities of Democratization
5 Shaun Bowler, Elisabeth Carter, and David M. Farrell: Changing Party
Access to Politics
Part II: Change in Non-electoral Institutions
6 Bruce Cain, Sergio Fabrinni, and Patrick Egan: Toward More Open
Democracies: The Expansion of Freedom of Information Laws
7 Christopher Ansell and Jane Gingrich: The Decentralization of Governance:
Regional and Local Delegation
8 Christopher Ansell and Jane Gingrich: Reforming the Administrative
State
9 Rachel Chichowski and Alec Stone Sweet: Participation, Representative
Democracy, and the Courts
Part III: The Consequences of Political Reform
10 Mark Warren: A Second Transformation of Democracy
11 Russell J. Dalton, Bruce Cain, and Susan E. Scarrow: Democratic
Publics and Democratic Institutions: New Forms or Adaptation