Governing Modern Societies
eBook - ePub

Governing Modern Societies

Towards Participatory Governance

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Governing Modern Societies

Towards Participatory Governance

About this book

Is the 'golden age' of democracy really over due to the pressures of globalisation and the erosion of the nation state?

Within this book, Heinelt seeks to address the democratic deficit in political systems linked to limited Citizen Participation reflecting on the notion of democracy and participatory governance and how they relate to each other. Exploring democracy beyond the governmental structures and focusing on participatory governance in particular this book demonstrates that common notions of democracy have to be re-conceptualised without neglecting its key ideas. By arguing that it is a political task to turn the inevitability of governance into a participatory form, Heinelt develops a model of different 'worlds of democratic actions' which shows that democratic political systems have to be considered as a complex and broad web of various forms of interest articulation and intermediation as well as decision-making.

Making an important contribution to the 'third transformation of democracy', this book will be of interest to students and scholars of governance, democracy, policymaking & European studies.

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Table of contents

  1. Routledge studies in governance and public policy
  2. Contents
  3. Figures
  4. 1 Introduction
  5. 2 Starting points and key conceptual issues
  6. 3 Different sectors of interest intermediation and their ā€˜compositionā€™ in political systems
  7. 4 Key features of the reforms of governance arrangements and of the perspectives on reform held by particular ā€˜discourse communitiesā€™
  8. 5 Achieving governability
  9. 6 Multi-level systems and flexible power geometry
  10. 7 Perspectives
  11. Notes
  12. References
  13. Index