Democratic decline and democratic renewal : political change in Britain, Australia and New Zealand / Ian Marsh and Raymond Miller.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Marsh, Ian.

Miller, Raymond.

01-01-2012

x, 383 p. ; 24 cm.

320.9 MAR (Copy 1) MAIN-MONO 295438 INLIBRARY

Democratic countries

Parliamentary parties

Political change

Social change

Australia overseas comparisons

Community participation

Great Britain

History

New Zealand

Democracy -- Case studies.

Democracy -- History -- 20th century.

Democracy -- History -- 21st century.

Democracy -- Australia -- History -- 20th century.

Democracy -- Australia -- History -- 21st century.

Democracy -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.

Democracy -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st century.

Democracy -- New Zealand -- History -- 20th century.

Democracy -- New Zealand -- History -- 21st century.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9781107025684

9781107675476

Part I. Introduction: 1. The decline and renewal of democratic governance: a theoretical framework; Part II. Political Change in Britain: The Development of a Strategy Gap: 2. The mass party system and state strategic capacity in Britain; 3. Neo-liberalism and the decline of state strategic capacity; 4. Why the gap in strategic capacity poses a systemic challenge; Part III. Political Change in Australia: The Development of a Representation Gap: 5. Everyman is king: representation and strategic capacity in Australia's mass party period; 6. Pluralised society, individualised politics: the gap between citizens and the formal political system; 7. Why a representation gap poses a systemic challenge (and the populist alternative); Part IV. Political Change in New Zealand: Voting Reform, Multi-Party Politics and Minority Government: 8. Identities and capabilities in the mass party era in New Zealand; 9. Neo-liberalism, social change and democracy; 10. Is electoral reform sufficient?; Part V. Democratic Renewal: 11. Reconnecting citizens to the political system; 12. The prospect for democratic renewal.

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