Complex Democracy
Varieties, Crises, and Transformations
Editors: Schneider, Volker, Eberlein, Burkard (Eds.)
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- Covers the broad field of democracy studies
- Illustrates the challenges for democracy that result from economic crisis
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Complex Democracy: An Introduction
Pages 1-8
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Varieties of Democracy: ‘Proporzdemokratie’, ‘Consensus Democracy’, Liberal Democracy and Direct Democracy
Pages 11-27
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The Four Worlds of Democracy: Commentary on Arend Lijphart’s Revised Edition of Patterns of Democracy (2012)
Pages 29-49
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‘Proporz’ or Polarization? The Religious Cleavage, the Division on the Left and the Party Systems of Southern Europe
Pages 51-68
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Lehmbruch Versus Lijphart: Comparing Democratic Governments as Multidimensional Regimes
Pages 69-82
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Complex Democracy
- Book Subtitle
- Varieties, Crises, and Transformations
- Editors
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- Volker Schneider
- Burkard Eberlein
- Copyright
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-15850-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-15850-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-15849-5
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-36729-3
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VI, 291
- Number of Illustrations
- 18 b/w illustrations
- Topics
