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The politics of participation : From Athens to e-democracy.
We live in an age of democracy. Very few people challenge the virtues of?government by the people?, yet politicians and commentators are fond of decrying the?crisis of democracy?. How do these views square up?This book provides the answer by surveying the philosophical history of democracy and its c...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 9780719076589; 9780719076589; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; A note on the data; Introduction; Part I Theoretical aspects of citizen politics; 1 Understanding citizen politics: a methodological overview; 2 Participation and democracy from the Greeks to our times; Part II Empirical foundations of citizen politics; 3 An empirical approach to citizen politics; 4 Bottom-up politics: riots and extraparliamentary participation; 5 Top-down politics: e-democracy, citizens' juries and designer politics; 6 Citizens as voters; 7 Excursus: the power of the representatives.
- Part III Case studies in citizen democracy8 Decisions to hold referendums in the UK; 9 Voting by the people: the referendums on the European Constitution; 10 Absentee voting: a comparative perspective; Conclusion: quo vadis democracy?; References; Index.