TY  - BOOK
AU  - Qvortrup,Matt
TI  - The politics of participation: From Athens to e-democracy
SN  - 9781847792303
AV  - JF799 .P655 2007
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Manchester
PB  - Manchester University Press
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Political participation
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 9780719076589; 9780719076589; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; A note on the data; Introduction; Part I Theoretical aspects of citizen politics; 1 Understanding citizen politics: a methodological overview; 2 Participation and democracy from the Greeks to our times; Part II Empirical foundations of citizen politics; 3 An empirical approach to citizen politics; 4 Bottom-up politics: riots and extraparliamentary participation; 5 Top-down politics: e-democracy, citizens' juries and designer politics; 6 Citizens as voters; 7 Excursus: the power of the representatives; Part III Case studies in citizen democracy8 Decisions to hold referendums in the UK; 9 Voting by the people: the referendums on the European Constitution; 10 Absentee voting: a comparative perspective; Conclusion: quo vadis democracy?; References; Index; 2; b
N2  - 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 about citizen participation in Britain and other developed democracies. In addition to analysis of major political thinkers like Plato, Machiavelli and J.S. Mill, the book analyses how modern technology has influenced democracy. Among the issues discussed in t
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