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"Many fear that democracies are suffering from a legitimacy crisis. This book focuses on, ♯d︢emocratic deficits, ♯ ̮reflecting how far the perceived democratic performance of any state diverges from public expectations. Pippa Norris examines the symptoms by comparing system support in more than fifty societies worldwide, challenging the pervasive claim that most established democracies have experienced a steadily rising tide of political disaffection during the third-wave era. The book diagnoses the reasons behind the democratic deficit, including demand (rising public aspirations for democracy), information (negative news about government), and supply (the performance and structure of democratic regimes). Finally, Norris examines the consequences for active citizenship, for governance, and ultimately, for democratization. This book provides fresh insights into major issues at the heart of comparative politics, public opinion, political culture, political behavior, democratic governance, political psychology, political communications, public policymaking, comparative sociology, cross-national survey analysis, and the dynamics of the democratization process"--

"This book is the first volume to unite theoretical and practical insights into the protection of human rights by legislatures from a number of domestic jurisdictions, international organisations, and leading scholars. In doing so it aims to present a complete picture of the parliamentary protection of human rights which will interest both academic scholars and practitioners. Specifically, the volume contains contributions analysing the processes of legislative protection of human rights from jurisdictions in Britain, Europe, and Australasia. It also contains studies on the role of the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights, and a critical scholarly examination of the relationship between parliamentary and curial institutions within the context of the protection of human rights. Within the volume there are several central original contributions from key figures working at the heart of trans-national organisations dedicated to the legislative protection of human rights. The contributions from academic scholars investigate the consequences of legislative protection of human rights in the United Kingdom parliament drawing upon both empirical evidence and theoretical perspectives. The volume concludes with a scholarly analysis of the implications which flow from the project of democratisation of human rights in a wider context."--Bloomsbury Publishing

1. The contested terrain of European territorial governance : new perspectives on democratic deficits and political displacements / Jonathan Metzger, Phil Allmendinger and Stijn Oosterlynck -- 2. Post-political regimes in English planning : from Third Way to Big Society / Phil Allmendinger and Graham Haughton -- 3. In search of the irreducible political moment : or why planning shouldn't be too hung up on conflictuality / Kristina Grange -- 4. Opposing the postpolitical Swedish urban discourse / Moa Tunstrom and Karin Bradley -- 5. Rethinking politics and the (post-)political through Deleuze-Guattarian micropolitics / Matthias Loepfe and Joris Van Wezemael -- 6. Impossible common ground : planning and reconciliation / John Pløger -- 7. Hopeless postpolitics, professional idiots, and the fate of public space in Stockholm Parklife / Jonas Bylund and Andrew Byerley -- 8. Conflict management, democratic demands, and the post-politics of privatisation / Mike Raco -- 9. Planning as war by other means / Mekonnen Tesfahuney and Richard Ek -- 10. The moose are protesting : the more-than-human politics of transport infrastructure development / Jonathan Metzger -- 11. Insurgent architects and the spectral return of the urban political / Erik Swyngedouw and Japhy Wilson.

This book brings together a number of highly innovative and thought provoking contributions from European researchers in territorial governance-related fields such as human geography, planning studies, sociology, and management studies. The contributions share the ambition of highlighting troubling contemporary tendencies where spatial planning and territorial governance can be seen to circumscribe or subvert 'due democratic practice' and the democratic ethos. The book also functions as an introduction to some of the central strands of contemporary political philosophy, discussing their rel.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Democratic Deficit -- 2 Citizen Expectations and Democratic Performance -- 3 Defining and Identifying a Democratic Deficit -- 4 Democracy in American Elections -- 5 Can Canada's Past Electoral Reforms Help Us to Understand the Debate over Its Method of Election? -- 6 Regulating Political Finance in Canada -- 7 Campaign Finance Reform in the United States -- 8 Imperfect Legislatures -- 9 Democracy's Wartime Deficits -- 10 The "Centre" of the Democratic Deficit -- 11 Extending the Franchise to Non-Citizen Residents in Canada and the United States -- 12 Citizen Representation and the American Jury -- 13 Supplementary Democracy? -- 14 Reflections on the Democratic Deficit in Canada and the United States -- Contributors -- Index.

It is widely acknowledged that we are witnessing a major transformation of public policy making, a transformation which has been labelled as a change from 'government' to 'governance'. This comprehensive volume assesses the alleged 'democratic deficit' of these new governance practices and as such is ideally suited to courses on public administration.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface by the Editors -- List of Abbreviations -- PART I THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK -- 1 Governance and the Democratic Deficit: Introduction -- 2 The Governance Concept in Public Administration -- 3 Legitimacy and Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Assessing Governance Practices -- 4 The Idea of Democracy and the Eighteenth Century -- PART II GOVERNANCE AT A DISTANCE AND MARKET GOVERNANCE -- 5 Governance, Democracy and the European Modernization Agenda: A Comparison of Different Policy Initiatives -- 6 Police, Policing and Governance in The Netherlands and in the United Kingdom -- 7 The Accountability of Professionals in Social Policy: Or Why Governance is Multi-Focal and Democracy is Multi-Local -- PART III NETWORK GOVERNANCE AND SOCIETAL SELF-GOVERNANCE -- 8 The Legitimacy of the Rotterdam Integrated Public Safety Program -- 9 Embedding Deliberative Democracy: Local Environmental Forums in The Netherlands and the United States -- 10 The Limits of Donor-Induced Participation: An Analysis of a Participatory Development Program in Mozambique -- PART IV MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE -- 11 Democratic Legitimacy of Inter-Municipal and Regional Governance -- 12 Democratic Legitimacy of Economic Governance: The Case of the European and Monetary Union -- 13 The OMC and the Quest for Democratic Legitimization: The Case of the European Employment Strategy -- 14 Supranational Governance and the Challenge of Democracy: The IMF and the World Bank -- PART V CONCLUSIONS -- 15 Governance and the Democratic Deficit: An Evaluation