Multilevel Democracy: How Local Institutions and Civil Society Shape the Modern State

ISBN-13: 9781108427784 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 407 str.

Jefferey Sellers; Anders Lidstrom; Yooil Bae

Opis

Explores ways to make democracy work better, with particular focus on the integral role of local institutions.

Recenzje

'… an impressive body of research literature and masses of quantitative data … it is probably primarily of interest for researchers of public administration, but the parts about 'civil society' will raise the interest of Voluntas readers. The authors describe interesting fits between governance infrastructures on the one hand and the political and civic organizations on the other. The book has a broad scope: a wide variety of sources and literature from public administration, political science, history, economy, and civil society studies. It is more about being careful with the heritage than about building democracy from scratch.' Paul Dekker, Voluntas

Spis treści

1. Introduction: taking local institutions seriously; 2. Multilevel democracy and the modern state; 3. Multilevel democracies: a cross-sectional comparison; 4. Trajectories of local state formation; 5. The local state and the formation of civil society; 6. The policy state and local governance; 7. The quality of multilevel democracy; Postscript. Constructing multilevel democracy.