| Description |
253 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
William A. Douglass distinguished scholar series ; No. 1
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William A. Douglass distinguished scholar series ; no. 1.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Democracy and its crisis -- Relational democracy -- From participation to deliberation -- The deliberative public space -- Contributions and complementarity between the spaces -- Conditions of suitability and the limits of assessing the spaces -- Preliminary democratic contexts and conditions -- The appropriate social networks -- Specific public spaces (I) : mobilization and media spaces -- Specific public spaces (II) : governance, local participatory democracy, and electoral spaces -- An application of the model to the Basque Country -- Appendix: Politico-administrative institutions and territorial structure of the Basque Country. |
| Summary |
"The author argues in favor of relational democracy, a theory designed to achieve greater concurrence between citizens' wishes and leaders' decisions; he believes this would encourage a more democratic society than those political systems based on representative democracy alone. The author also applies his model of relational democracy to the Basque Country"--Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Democracy.
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Democracy. |
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Political participation.
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Political participation. |
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Political participation -- Spain -- País Vasco.
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Spain -- País Vasco. |
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País Vasco (Spain) -- Politics and government.
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| ISBN |
9781877802836 hardcover |
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1877802832 hardcover |
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9781877802843 paperback |
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1877802840 paperback |
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