Associative Democracy: The Real Third Way / Edition 1

by Veit Bader, Paul Hirst

Overview

This book aims to unlock the current crisis in democratic accountability by supplementing representative democracy with democratic governance in civil society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714651712
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/30/2001
Pages:	220
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Paul Hirst, Veit Bader

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction, VEIT BADER; Chapter 2 Can Associationalism Come Back?, Paul Hirst; Chapter 3 Problems and Prospects of Associative Democracy: Cohen and Rogers Revisited, Veit Bader; Chapter 4 Associo-Deliberative Democracy and Qualitative Part icipation, Piotr Perczynski; Chapter 5 Association and Deliberation in Risk Society: Two Faces of Ecological Democracy, Wouter Achterberg; Chapter 6 Associationalism for 150 Years and Still Alive and Kicking: Some Reflections on Danish Civil Society, Lars Bo Kaspersen, Laila Ottesen; Chapter 7 Globalisation and Multilevel Governance in Europe: Realist Criteria for Institutional Design, or How Pessimistic Should One Be?, Ewald Engelen; Chapter 8 Reflexive Governance and Indigenous Self-Rule: Lessons in Associative Democracy?, André J Hoekema; Chapter 9 Associative Democracy and the Incorporation of Minorities: Critical Remarks on Paul Hirst's Associative Democracy, Veit Bader; Abstracts; Index;

Editorial Reviews

Associative democracy holds that as many social activities as possible should be devolved to self-governing voluntary associations. Advocates tout it as an alternative to both free-market individualism and centralized state control. Scholars of the social sciences, most at the University of Amsterdam but also elsewhere in northern Europe, explore such aspects of it as problems and prospects, the faces of ecological democracy, Danish civil society, and globalization and multi-level governance in Europe. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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