What kind of democracy? Participation, Inclusiveness and Contestation
What kind of democracy? Participation, Inclusiveness and Contestation
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什么样的民主?
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2017
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Miriam Haselbacher
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作者:
Miriam Haselbacher
The manifestations of interactions between citizens and their representatives are a decisive element in shaping and characterising political systems. How do citizens get involved in political processes and how does this civic engagement influence democracies? What ways of participation do exist besides the act of voting? And what factors may have an influence on a more or less en-gaged citizenry? In ‘What kind of Democracy’ Kateřina Vráblíková adopts a comparative perspective to address those questions and asks how political inclusiveness/ exclusiveness and public contestation/consensus influence participation. She investigates how “individuals’ national political contexts affect their engagement in nonelectoral political activism” (xiii). Comparing 30 contemporary democracies the book asks “how and why people in some countries tend (…) to participate more in nonelectoral politics than people in other countries” amid the shared aspiration to active Vráblíková develops a democratic model of ‘inclusive contestation’ that is said to facilitate nonelectoral participation, linking the three dimen-sions of the book’s subtitle to each other. Based on those it is argued that political rivalry, contestation and competition motivate people to take