Democracy in Crisis Politics, Governance and Policy [Hardcover]

This major new text provides an original and comprehensive assessment of key contemporary trends in democratic politics and governance across major established democracies of the world.Introduction.- 1. Party Democracy Challenged.- 2. Mediatization and Audience Democracy.- 3. Internationalization, Europeanization and Multi-Level Governance.- 4. Collaborative Governance and Cooperative Policy-Making.- 5. Empowering the Citizen or the Customer?.- 6. Limits to Majority Rule: Agentification and Judicialization.- 7. The Winter of Democracy?.Yannis Papadopoulos is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

• The first text in the field to draw together such a broad range of theoretical literature on democratic theory and practice?
  
• Written by a leading figure in the field?
  
• The book examines the key transformations in democracies (the crisis of parties, the internationalizations of policy making, the marginalization of parliamentary institutions) and identifies the connections between these trends