Multilevel Democracy

How Local Institutions and Civil Society Shape the Modern State

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

This volume presents the first systematic comparative analysis of national traditions of local democracy across the developed world, as well as their origins and evolution. It reveals how inclusive local institutions that integrate national and local governance make democracy work better. Across most of the developed world, early forms of the national state entrenched the local power of elites. In Anglo-American and Swiss democracies, state formation imposed enduring tensions with local civic governance. In contrast, inclusive, integrative local institutions in Northern Europe enabled close links with central government around common local and national agendas, producing better governance and fuller democracy to the present day. Through comparative analysis, the authors demonstrate how institutions for local governance and the participation of civil society differ widely among developed democracies, and how local democracy relates to national democracy. The resulting insights fundamentally recast our understanding of how to build and maintain more effective democracies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-03-05
Mått:157 x 234 x 30 mm
Vikt:650 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:414
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108427784

Utforska kategorier

Statsvetenskap och politisk teori inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Jefferey Sellers is an Associate Professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Spatial Sciences at the University of Southern California. He wrote Governing From Below (Cambridge, 2002) and has received numerous grants from the US National Science Foundation and other sources. Anders Lidström is a Professor of Political Science at Umeå Universitet, Sweden. He serves on the Group of Independent Experts on the European Charter of Local Self-Government, Council of Europe. Yooil Bae is a Lecturer and Founding Faculty of Fulbright School of Public Policy and Management at Fulbright University Vietnam. He is a member of the Civil Society in Asia research group and the author of Mega-Events and Mega Ambition (2018).

Recensioner i media

'This book restores local democracy to its rightful place at the center of our understanding of national politics. Through an illuminating, comparative historical analysis, the authors show that systematic variations in local political incorporation have laid down enduring differences in the character of multilevel democracy, with far-reaching consequences for policymaking and the quality of democracy. A must-read!' Christopher Ansell, University of California, Berkeley

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: taking local institutions seriously; 2. Multilevel democracy and the modern state; 3. Multilevel democracies: a cross-sectional comparison; 4. Trajectories of local state formation; 5. The local state and the formation of civil society; 6. The policy state and local governance; 7. The quality of multilevel democracy; Postscript. Constructing multilevel democracy.

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