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Challenges to Democracy

Ideas, Involvement and Institutions

Palgrave Macmillan

Editors:

  1. Keith Dowding

    1. London School of Economics, UK

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  2. James Hughes

    1. London School of Economics, UK

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  3. Helen Margetts

    1. London School of Economics, UK

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Challenges for Democracy: Equality and Satisfaction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Political Equality in the Coming Century

      • Robert A. Dahl
      Pages 3-17

    3. Levelling Down

      • Jonathan Wolff
      Pages 18-32

    4. The Political Economy of Human Happiness

      • Benjamin Radcliff
      Pages 33-45

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 257-267
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About this book

This collection brings together leading political scientists in order to address the challenges faced by democracy in the twenty-first century. The contributors tackle the changing nature of democratic ideas, in particular equality in society and the satisfaction of citizens. They examine changing patterns of political involvement, from voting to new forms of participation and protest using the Internet and new technologies. Finally, they look at the challenge to democracy posed by the changing nature of state institutions: party systems, bureaucracy and e-government, regulation and the processes of institutional development.
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Keywords

  • communism
  • democracy
  • economy
  • governance
  • government
  • Institution
  • Internet
  • participation
  • Protest
  • social capital
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Editors and Affiliations

  • London School of Economics, UK

    Keith Dowding, James Hughes, Helen Margetts

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About the editors

GEORGINA BLAKELEY Lecturer in Politics, University of Huddersfield PETER BURNELL Professor of Politics, University of Warwick ROBERT DAHL Sterling Professor of Political Science, Yale University RON JOHNSTON Professor, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol TIM JORDAN Lecturer in Sociology, Open University MARTIN LODGE Lecturer in Public Policy, University of Ulster, Jordanstown HENRY MILNER Political Scientist affiliated with Laval University in Canada and the University of Umea, Sweden PIPPA NORRIS Associate Director (Research), and Lecturer, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University ELINOR OSTROM Co-Director, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University JAN OTT PhD Research, Erasmus University JOHN PARKINSON Doctoral Student, Melbourne University CHARLES PATTIE Professor, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield BENJAMIN RADCLIFF Associate Professor of Government, University of Notre Dame, Paris JONATHAN WOLFF Professor of Philosophy, University College London PERRI 6 Senior Research Fellow, Department of Government, University of Strathclyde
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Challenges to Democracy

  • Book Subtitle: Ideas, Involvement and Institutions

  • Editors: Keith Dowding, James Hughes, Helen Margetts

  • Series Title: PSA Yearbooks

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230502185

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-78982-7Published: 08 August 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-41862-6Published: 01 January 2001

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50218-5Published: 06 May 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2947-5325

  • Series E-ISSN: 2947-5333

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 267

  • Topics: Political Science, Democracy

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