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Complex Democracy

Varieties, Crises, and Transformations

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Editors:
  1. Volker Schneider

    1. Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

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  2. Burkard Eberlein

    1. School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada

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  • One of very few books dealing with the transformation and future of democracy

  • Covers the broad field of democracy studies

  • Illustrates the challenges for democracy that result from economic crisis

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Complex Democracy: An Introduction

    • Volker Schneider, Burkard Eberlein
    Pages 1-8

  3. Varieties

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Varieties of Democracy: ‘Proporzdemokratie’, ‘Consensus Democracy’, Liberal Democracy and Direct Democracy

      • Hanspeter Kriesi
      Pages 11-27

    3. The Four Worlds of Democracy: Commentary on Arend Lijphart’s Revised Edition of Patterns of Democracy (2012)

      • Manfred G. Schmidt
      Pages 29-49

    4. ‘Proporz’ or Polarization? The Religious Cleavage, the Division on the Left and the Party Systems of Southern Europe

      • Philip Manow
      Pages 51-68

    5. Lehmbruch Versus Lijphart: Comparing Democratic Governments as Multidimensional Regimes

      • Arthur Benz
      Pages 69-82

    6. A Delicate Relationship: Austria’s Oversensitivity–Germany’s Undersensitivity?

      • Anton Pelinka
      Pages 83-92

    7. Latent Institutional Elasticity: The Demise of Communism in the East Germany 1989/1990 and Gerhard Lehmbruch’s Concept of Administrative Interest Mediation

      • Wolfgang Seibel
      Pages 93-115

    8. Can There Be a Normative Theory of Corporate Political Power?

      • Colin Crouch
      Pages 117-131
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This book presents a state-of-the art collection of original contributions on democracy, addressing three related themes: the complexity of modern democracies and their structural diversity; coping strategies of democracies in times of crises; and current and potential trajectories and transformations of democracy. The first part of the book maps the democratic landscape by revealing the diversity of democratic political systems, through either comparative analysis or case studies on the specific nature of political and administrative systems in interest intermediation and identity construction. The second part presents articles that investigate the response of democracies to times of crisis, with an emphasis on political economies and policy processes within the European Union. The third part offers studies on democracies that explore their adaptive potential in the context of globalization and in that of broader technical, institutional or cultural changes.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

    Volker Schneider

  • School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada

    Burkard Eberlein

About the editors

Volker Schneider is Professor of Political Science and Dean of the Faculty of Politics, Law and Economics at the University of Konstanz. His research concentrates on the theory of the state, governance and public policy and in particular on a network perspective on state and society.

Burkard Eberlein is an Associate Professor of Public Policy in the School of Business at York University in Toronto, Canada. His areas of research are comparative public policy and transnational governance, with a particular focus on novel governance arrangements across national borders.

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