Democracies are transforming worldwide, but at the same time political inequality is increasing. This development threatens to leave growing portions of mass publics effectively ‘outside’ the political process.
This volume brings together leading authorities in the field of democratic citizenship and participation to address pertinent questions concerning the quality of the democratic political process at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Analysing causes and consequences of recent developments in democratic governance and citizenship, it contributes new and original research to the ongoing debate on the crisis of representative democracy. The contributors deal with a broad range of issues including aspects of democratic citizenship and citizens' perceptions of system performance, political inequality and the democratic impact of participatory innovations.
This book will be of key interest to scholars and students in democratization studies, democratic citizenship, comparative politics, political sociology and political participation.
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'Citizen political participation is increasing and diversifying in contemporary democracies. Political Participation in a Changing World provides a theoretical guide to this rich and expanding literature. Theocharis and van Deth present a valuable summary of the research evidence and the new research questions in the participation field.' - Russell J. Dalton, University of California
1 Introduction: Citizenship, participation and democracy in an era of
crisis Thomas Poguntke, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck and Sonja
Zmerli PART 1 Citizenship and perceptions of system performance 2 Democratic
institutions and citizen beliefs about democracy: How do they interact? Max
Kaase 3 Whats gone wrong with democracy, or with theories explaining why it
has? Jacques Thomassen 4 When representation fails: Behavioural reactions to
perceived failure of political representation in France and Germany Oscar W.
Gabriel
5. Mass media and political trust in Europe: Testing for rainmaker
effects Sonja Zmerli, Kenneth Newton and Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck 6 The dynamics
of good citizenship norms M. Kent Kennings PART II Inequality: socialization
and supply-side perspectives 7 Early conditions of political participation
and civic integration of immigrant-children Hartmut Esser 8 Political
socialization and inequality: The role of primary schools Simone Abendschön
and Sigrid Roßteutscher 9 Much ado about something? Demand- and supply-side
participation in a dysfunctional democratic market William A. Maloney 10
Living in different worlds? Left-wing parties and trade unions Thomas
Poguntke PART III The democratic impact of participatory innovations 11 Is
digitally networked participation a form of political participation? Yannis
Theocharis 12 Citizen engagement and acting in the interest of citizens in
the EU Beate Kohler-Koch 13 Representative vs. direct democracy in Germany: A
contribution to an ongoing debate Franz Urban Pappi 14 Democratic citizenship
under challenge Thomas Poguntke, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck
and Sonja Zmerli
Thomas Poguntke is Professor of Comparative Politics and Director of the Düsseldorf Party Research Institute (PRuF ) at the Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf and Fellow at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research.
Sigrid Roßteutscher is Professor of Political Sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main.
Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck is Professor of Political Science and Political Sociology at the University of Mannheim.
Sonja Zmerli is Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main.
