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Groups, representation and democracy between promise and practice / Darren Halpin.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Manchester, UK ; Manchester University Press ; (c)2010.; New York : Distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, (c)2010.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 310 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781847793027
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HM753 .G768 2010
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Interest group aliases: towards definitional commensurability? -- Democratic expectations: the representation account -- Between representation and solidarity: (re)calibrating democratic expectations -- Democratic promises and practices: some empirical evidence -- The orthodox case: the drift from representation towards solidarity -- Making Olson work: rejuventating 'supply-side' explanations -- Are 'protest businesses' contemporary phenomena? -- Democratic transformation: fulfilling the promise of representation -- Between promise and practice.
Summary: This book debates the democratic potential and practice of groups; focusing on the vibrancy of internal democracies, and modes of accountability with those who join such groups and or the constituencies they advocate for.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Groups as agents of democracy? -- Interest group aliases: towards definitional commensurability? -- Democratic expectations: the representation account -- Between representation and solidarity: (re)calibrating democratic expectations -- Democratic promises and practices: some empirical evidence -- The orthodox case: the drift from representation towards solidarity -- Making Olson work: rejuventating 'supply-side' explanations -- Are 'protest businesses' contemporary phenomena? -- Democratic transformation: fulfilling the promise of representation -- Between promise and practice.

This book debates the democratic potential and practice of groups; focusing on the vibrancy of internal democracies, and modes of accountability with those who join such groups and or the constituencies they advocate for.

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