The Future of Self-Governing, Thriving Democracies: Democratic Innovations By, with and for the People

ISBN-13: 9781032285047 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 256 str.

Germany) Geissel Brigitte (Goethe University

Opis

This book offers a new approach for the future of democracy by advocating giving citizens the power to deliberate and to decide how to govern themselves.

Spis treści

Introduction: A Visionary Thriving Democracy  Part 1: Thriving Democracies: Principles of self-governing  1. Citizens decide on how they govern themselves  2. Citizens monitor continuous adaption  3. Citizens’ will-formation is tightly connected to decision-making  Part 2: Why existing democracies fail to realize self-governing  4. Self-governing: citizens’ preferences and competencies  5. No established practice suffices to realizing self-governing  6. No existing experiment suffices to realizing self-governing  Part 3: Thriving Democracies: Visionary setups for realizing self-governing  7. Practices for will-formation and decision-making  8. Procedures connecting will-formation and decision-making  9. Novel public agencies and legal norms.  Conclusion: Thriving Democracies – our future

O autorze

Brigitte Geissel is Professor of Political Science and Political Sociology and Head of the Research Unit ‘Democratic Innovations’ at Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany.