Evaluating Democratic Innovations

Brigitte Geissel is Professor of Political Sciences and Political Sociology at Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and iscurrently a fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School.Kenneth Newton is Emeritus Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Southampton, UK.

• 1. Curing the Democratic Malaise with Democratic Innovations Ken Newton 2. Implementing Popular Prefernces: Is Direct Democracy the Answer? Ian Budge 3. Direct Democracy - the Swiss Experience Hanspeter Kriesi 4. Evaluating New vs Old Forms of Citizen Engagement and Participation David Beetham 5. Deliberative Polling: Reflections on an Ideal Made Practical James S Fishkin 6. Deliberative Democracy and Mini-Publics Graham Smith 7. Deliberation as an Ideal and Practice in Progressive Social Movements Dieter Rucht 8. Making Better Citizens? Ken Newton 9. Impacts of Democratic Innovations in Europe: Challenges of Evaluation Brigitte Geissel 10. When Democratic Innovations Let the People Decide: An Evaluation of Co-governance Experiments Julien Talpin 11. Democratic Innovations - Theoretical and Empirical Challenges of Evaluation Brigitte Geissel