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Representative Democracy Takes a 'Deliberative Turn'
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Date Issued
2012-09
Date Available
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Abstract
In a set of papers published in his final years, Peter Mair expressed strong and ever more urgent concerns over the state of party politics and the future of representative politics itself . The aim of this paper is to examine his thesis. I start in the next section
by setting out the main points of Mair’s arguments on party and democratic failure. I
next consider the question of whether the evidence supports such a perspective, or
whether in fact there are signs of adaptability and change. This then leads to a
discussion about the reform agenda in established representative democracies, an
agenda that in a growing number of cases is bringing deliberation centre stage.
Type of Material
Conference Publication
Publisher
European University Institute
Copyright (Published Version)
2012 Authors
Subject – LCSH
Political parties
Representative government and representation
Language
English
Status of Item
Not peer reviewed
Conference Details
Responsive or Responsible? Parties, Democracy, and Global Markets, European University Institute, Florence, September 26 - 28th 2012
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