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Cover 1 Title, Copyright, Epigraph 2 Contents 8 List of illustrations 10 Acknowledgements 12 A note on the data 14 Introduction 16 1 Understanding citizen politics: a methodological overview 20 2 Participation and democracy from the Greeks to our times 30 3 An empirical approach to citizen politics 56 4 Bottom–up politics: riots and extraparliamentary participation 73 5 Top–down politics: e-democracy, citizens’ juries and designer politics 82 6 Citizens as voters 97 7 Excursus: the power of the representatives 114 8 Decisions to hold referendums in the UK 128 9 Voting by the people: the referendums on the European Constitution 146 10 Absentee voting: a comparative perspective 165 Conclusion: quo vadis democracy? 174 References 179 Index 192 Publisher:Manchester University Press,Published:2013,ISBN:9781847792303,Language:English,OCLC:1132226572 We live in an age of democracy. Very few people challenge the virtues of ‘government by the people’, yet politicians and commentators are fond of decrying the ‘crisis of democracy’. How do these views square up? This book provides the answer by surveying the philosophical history of democracy and its critics and by analysing empirical data ab

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Author

Qvortrup, Mads

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780719076589

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Social_sciences