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Vital Democracy
A Theory of Democracy in Action
Frank Hendriks
256 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-957278-6
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Hardback
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08 April 2010
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- Innovative new theory
- Mixing theory and practice
Vital Democracy outlines a theory of democracy in action, based on four elementary forms of democracy - pendulum, consensus, voter and participatory democracy - that are thoroughly analysed, compared and related to both the literature and the real world of democracy. Just like a few primary colours produce an array of shades, a few basic models of democracy appear, the author argues, to constitute a wide range of democratic variants in real life.
Focusing on tried and tested democratic institutions, Frank Hendriks shows that the four models of democracy - with their divergent patterns of leadership, citizenship and governance, their inherent strengths and weaknesses - are never
purely instantiated. He argues that wherever democracy is practiced with some level of success, it is always as hybrid democracy, thereby challenging those democratic reformers and theorists that have inspired the quest for democratic purity.
Vital Democracy builds on Arend Lijphart's well-known work which distinguishes between majoritarian and consensual democratic countries but also goes well beyond it, urging attention to non-national, non-formal, and non-representative expressions of democracy as well.Readership: Scholars and students of political theory, political behaviour, and democracy studies.
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Frank Hendriks, Professor of Comparative Governance at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.
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"In a highly innovative fashion, Frank Hendriks juxtaposes the majoritarian-consensus distinction that I use in Patterns of Democracy with the direct-indirect distinction, which has been known in political science for a long time but which has rarely been used in a systematic way. The result is a parsimonious two-by-two matrix, which is completely original and which works very well for his comparative analysis. Variants of direct democracyof both the push-button type and the deliberative kind, which have been attracting a lot of attention in recent yearsare drawn into the comparative picture together with variants of representative democracy. The book concludes with some insightful perspectives on democratic reform, arguing persuasively in favor of
contextually sensitive mixtures of models and against the one-best-model approach. A wonderful book. Compulsory reading for all those talking about democracy." - Arend Lijphart, University of California, San Diego
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List of Figures and Tables
Preface and Acknowledgements
Opening Debate
Part I: Concepts
1: Plural Democracy
2: Layered Democracy
Part II: Practices
3: Pendulum Democracy
4: Consensus Democracy
5: Voter Democracy
6: Participatory Democracy
Part III: Lessons
7: Mixing Democracy
8: Reforming Democracy
Closing Debate
Bibliography
Index
Notes
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