| Description |
1 online resource (190 pages) |
| Series |
Political Quarterly Monograph Ser |
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Political Quarterly Monograph Ser
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| Contents |
Intro; Table of Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. Democracy and Its Discontents; Notes; 3. Feminist Reflections on Representative Democracy; Introduction; Defining democracy; The biases of democratic citizenship; The treatment of women as individuals; Slow change: the presence of women in democratic politics; Substantive representation: women's policy agendas; Discussion: the masculine bias of political institutions; Conclusions; Notes; 4. Why is Democracy so Surprising?; 5. Constitutional Reform: Death, Rebirth and Renewal; I; II; III; Notes |
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6. Three Types of Majority RuleA UK trio: 2010, 2015, 2017; What is so good about majority rule?; The Westminster system; Double majority government; The issue-by-issue majority; Second chambers; Conclusion; Notes; 7. Rethinking Political Communication; The problem and the question; Communication, party and people; The form of the content; Conclusion; Notes; 8. Protecting Democratic Legitimacy in a Digital Age; Notes; 9. Rethinking Democracy with Social Media; What do we know? The value of small things; Scaling up-or not; Losing control of democracy; Democratic grief |
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Examining the evidence for the death of democracyTaking back control? Building transparency and accountability back into democracy; Stabilising democracy in the social media age; Notes; 10. Post-Democracy and Populism; Why the popularity of xenophobic populism?; Populism as a problem; Conclusion; Notes; 11. Relating and Responding to the Politics of Resentment; Introduction; The imperfect foundations of politics; Class, identity and politics; Politics and competence; The politics of resentment; Finding a new political vehicle: a radical devolution?; Conclusions; Acknowledgements; Notes |
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12. A Hundred Years of British DemocracyNotes; Index; End User License Agreement |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Democracy.
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Democracy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wright, Tony
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| ISBN |
9781119554776 |
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1119554772 |
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