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Saward, Michael (2001) Reconstructing democracy : current thinking and new directions. Government and Opposition, 36 (4). pp. 559-581. doi:10.1111/1477-7053.00081 ISSN 0017-257X.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1477-7053.00081
Abstract
Today's Democratic Theory Offers Sketches Of Tomorrow's democratic polity. How innovative, and how compelling, are the visions it offers us? This article explores possible democratic futures by scanning a selection of today's key democratic innovations – cosmopolitan, deliberative, ‘politics of presence’, ecological, associative and party-based direct models – in the light of a set of six central issues useful for examining the core aspects of democratic theories. It concludes by suggesting a way forward in which insights from diverse innovations might helpfully be accommodated within an overarching framework. Overall, it represents a deliberate attempt at a bird's eye view of the subject; the aim is to be suggestive rather than definitive. The scope of the analysis is broad but quite strictly qualified in the following ways: the six innovative ideas scrutinized arise from, and largely address, countries of the rich North rather than the developing South; they do not exhaust the range of current innovations in democratic theory; and they are based largely on English-language sources.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Government and Opposition | ||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0017-257X | ||||||
| Official Date: | October 2001 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 36 | ||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 559-581 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/1477-7053.00081 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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