Saving Democracy
eBook - ePub

Saving Democracy

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Saving Democracy

About this book

Democracy is in crisis. Is there still time to save it? Democracies face external threat from aggressive authoritarian states. Internally, citizens have grown increasingly distrustful of politicians and more cynical about national and global governance institutions. The time is ripe for democracy to renew itself. This text offers a state-of-the art overview of democratic innovations today, moving beyond cries of the 'death' or 'end' of democracy to instead offer a range of practical solutions for how to save it and restore faith in democratic practice. 'Old' democratic power, represented by existing structures, is being challenged. 'New' power involves collaboration and rapid feedback loops, as well as increased citizen participation. The future of democracy, the authors demonstrate, will be about findings ways of melding 'old' and 'new' power practices. Offering a broad and accessible survey of what different forms of democracy and democratic innovations look like today, and how they can develop in future, Saving Democracy shows us the potential for transformation across the entire democratic process. Avoiding a reductive focus on simply getting citizens more involved in decision-making, this book uniquely argues for the importance of refining and monitoring how democratic decisions are made and followed through.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. List of Boxes, Figures and Tables
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. 1 Why ‘saving’ democracy?
  8. 2 Can democracy be saved?
  9. Part 1: Interventions at the input stage to enable critical citizenship
  10. Part 2: Interventions at the throughput stage to improve the quality and integrity of politics
  11. Part 3: Interventions at the output stage to improve the capacity of politics to deliver quality services and policy outcomes
  12. Postscript
  13. Notes
  14. Index
  15. Imprint

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