Participatory Democracy in Southern Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Participatory Democracy in Southern Europe write by Joan Font. This book was released on 2014-06-05. Participatory Democracy in Southern Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Citizen participation is a central component of democratic governance. As participatory schemes have grown in number and gained in social legitimacy over recent years, the research community has analyzed the virtues of participatory policies from several points of view, but usually giving focus to the most successful and well-known grass-roots cases. This book examines a wider range of participatory interventions that have been created or legitimized by central governments, providing original exploration of institutional democratic participatory mechanisms. Looking at a huge variety of subnational examples across Italy, Spain and France, the book interrogates the rich findings of a substantial research project. The authors use quantitative and qualitative methods to compare why these cases of participatory mechanisms have emerged, how they function, and what cultural impact they’ve achieved. This allows highly original insights into why participatory mechanisms work in some places, but not others, and the sorts of choices that organizers of participatory processes have to consider when creating such policies.
Constraining Democratic Governance in Southern Europe
Constraining Democratic Governance in Southern Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Constraining Democratic Governance in Southern Europe write by José M. Magone. This book was released on 2021-05-28. Constraining Democratic Governance in Southern Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this thought-provoking book, José M. Magone investigates the growing political, economic and social divisions between the core countries of the European Union and the southern European periphery. He examines the major hindrances that are preventing the four main southern European countries (Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece) from keeping up with the increasing pace of European integration, and the effects that this is having on democratic governance.
E-Participation in Southern Europe and the Balkans
E-Participation in Southern Europe and the Balkans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook E-Participation in Southern Europe and the Balkans write by Euripidis Loukis. This book was released on 2013-09-13. E-Participation in Southern Europe and the Balkans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The rapid development and the growing penetration of information and communication technologies (ICT) provide tremendous opportunities for a wide and cost effective application of the ideas of participative democracy and public participation in government decision and policy making. ICT can drive dramatic transformations in the quantity and quality of communication and interaction of government organizations with citizens, revitalizing and strengthening the modern representative democracy which currently faces big problems of reduced citizens’ trust and involvement. This book deals with the application of these e-participation ideas in the special and ‘difficult’, and at the same time highly interesting, national context of Southern Europe and the Balkans. The first chapter provides an overview of e-participation concepts and practices whilst the following chapters analyse pilot applications of e-participation concepts in eight different Southern European and Balkan countries (Spain, France, Italy, Slovenia, Serbia, Albania, Greece, Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)). They cover both the ‘classical’ e-participation paradigm, based on official e-participation spaces created, operated and controlled by government organizations as well as emerging new e-participation paradigms including e-participation based on web 2.0 social media, and ‘scientific-level’ e-participation, based on opening government data to the scientific community. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies.
Democracy and the State in the New Southern Europe
Democracy and the State in the New Southern Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democracy and the State in the New Southern Europe write by Richard Gunther. This book was released on 2006-11-16. Democracy and the State in the New Southern Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Analysing the evolution of selected public policies and the changing roles and structure of the state in Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain since the 1960s, this volume makes a major contribution to work on democratic regime transition in southern Europe.
Parties, Politics, and Democracy in the New Southern Europe
Parties, Politics, and Democracy in the New Southern Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Parties, Politics, and Democracy in the New Southern Europe write by P. Nikiforos Diamandouros. This book was released on 2001-06-11. Parties, Politics, and Democracy in the New Southern Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the acclaimed Politics of Democratic Consolidation, Nikiforos Diamandouros, Richard Gunther, and their co-authors showed how democratization unfolded in Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, culminating in consolidated democratic regimes. This volume continues that analysis, posing the basic question: What kind of democratic politics emerged in those countries? It presents systematic analyses of the basic institutions of government and of the dynamics of electoral competition in the four countries (set in comparative context alongside several other democracies), as well as detailed studies of the evolution of the major parties, their electorates, their ideologies, and their performances in government over the past twenty years. The authors reach two major conclusions. First, the new democracies' salient features are moderation, centripetalism, and the democratization of erstwhile antisystem parties on the Right and Left. Second, no single "Southern European model" has emerged; the systems differ from one another about as much as do the other established democracies of Europe. Contributors: P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, University of Athens • Richard Gunther, Ohio State University • Thomas C. Bruneau, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey • Arend Lijphart, University of California at San Diego • Leonardo Morlino, University of Florence • Risa A. Brooks, Stanford University • José R. Montero, Autonomous University of Madrid • Giacomo Sani, University of Pavia • Paolo Segatti, University of Trieste • Gianfranco Pasquino, University of Bologna • Takis S. Pappas, College Year, Athens • Hans-Jrgen Puhle, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main • Anna Bosco, University of Trieste
