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Intro -- Table of Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Democracy and Its Discontents -- Notes -- 3. Feminist Reflections on Representative Democracy -- Introduction -- Defining democracy -- The biases of democratic citizenship -- The treatment of women as individuals -- Slow change: the presence of women in democratic politics -- Substantive representation: women's policy agendas -- Discussion: the masculine bias of political institutions -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 4. Why is Democracy so Surprising? -- 5. Constitutional Reform: Death, Rebirth and Renewal -- I -- II -- III -- Notes -- 6. Three Types of Majority Rule -- A UK trio: 2010, 2015, 2017 -- What is so good about majority rule? -- The Westminster system -- Double majority government -- The issue-by-issue majority -- Second chambers -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7. Rethinking Political Communication -- The problem and the question -- Communication, party and people -- The form of the content -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8. Protecting Democratic Legitimacy in a Digital Age -- Notes -- 9. Rethinking Democracy with Social Media -- What do we know? The value of small things -- Scaling up-or not -- Losing control of democracy -- Democratic grief -- Examining the evidence for the death of democracy -- Taking back control? Building transparency and accountability back into democracy -- Stabilising democracy in the social media age -- Notes -- 10. Post-Democracy and Populism -- Why the popularity of xenophobic populism? -- Populism as a problem -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 11. Relating and Responding to the Politics of Resentment -- Introduction -- The imperfect foundations of politics -- Class, identity and politics -- Politics and competence -- The politics of resentment -- Finding a new political vehicle: a radical devolution? -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Notes

Constitutional democracy addresses the widely held belief that liberal democracy embodies an uneasy compromise of incompatible values: those of liberal rights on the one hand, and democratic equality on the other. Liberalism is said to compromise democracy, while democracy is said to endanger the values of liberalism. It is these theses that János Kis examines and tries to refute. Making the assumption that the alleged conflict is to be resolved at the level of institutions, he outlines a new theory of constitutional democracy. A wide range of problems encountered in constitutional democracy are discussed, such as the popular vote, popular sovereignty, and non-elected justices. The volume is composed of three parts. Part One, "Public Good and Civic Virtue", revisits the debate between liberals and democrats on how to interpret the democratic vote. In Part Two, "Liberal Democracy", the author proves that on the level of principles there is no incompatibility between liberalism and democracy and that liberal theory can demonstrate that democratic values follow from fundamental liberal values. In Part Three, "Constitutional Adjudication in a Democracy", the compatibility of democracy and judicial or constitutional review is analyzed and a theory of constitutionalism is outlined. This volume appeals to scholars in political philosophy, political science, and constitutional law, but is also recommended to all those interested in liberal and democratic theory, and the transition to democracy in Central and Eastern Europe

Version 3.2. Originally published on blog and wiki and then as a chapter in the book, Extreme Democracy. This version edited by Jon Lebkowsky. ; This essay argues that a new form of democracy — an "Emergent Democracy" — will develop as a result of the use of Internet communication tools and platforms such as blogs. The essay explores a variety of tools available and explores the history of democracy, modern experiments with democracy and how these tools might support democracy. The essay also explores concerns as these new tools emerge. These issues include concerns such as privacy and the societally negative use of these tools by corporations, totalitarian regimes and terrorists.