Demokratie vitalisieren - politische Teilhabe stärken

Demokratie vitalisieren - politische Teilhabe stärken
Author: Bertelsmann Stiftung
Publisher: Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2011-06-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3867933847

Immer weniger Menschen in Deutschland gehen zur Wahl, immer weniger engagieren sich in der Politik. Dennoch zeigen Auseinandersetzungen um Schulreformen oder Rauchverbote: Die Deutschen wollen mitreden. Weltweit gibt es eine Vielzahl staatlicher Institutionen, die Bürger an politischen Entscheidungen beteiligen. Die Publikation zum Reinhard Mohn Preis 2011 "Demokratie vitalisieren - politische Teilhabe stärken" stellt die innovativen Verfahren der sieben Finalisten vor. Ob im Bürgerhaushalt mit Mitbestimmung per SMS in La Plata (Argentinien) oder bei der Entwicklung eines neuen Wahlgesetzes in British Columbia (Kanada) - die Einbeziehung der Bürger ist ein erfolgreicher Weg zur demokratischen Problemlösung: Dabei zeigen sich auch neue Perspektiven für die Bürgerbeteiligung in Deutschland. Mit dem "Reinhard Mohn Preis" möchte die Bertelsmann Stiftung an den Bürger, Unternehmer und Stifter Reinhard Mohn erinnern. Seine Ideen, Visionen und Haltungen sollen wachgehalten werden. Dazu gehört auch, im Ausland nach geeigneten Lösungen zu suchen und weltweit von den Ideen und Ansätzen anderer zu lernen.

European Values

European Values
Author: Pierre Bréchon
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2017-04-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004341064

Written by the team carrying out the EVS surveys in France, this book contrasts with the popular belief that values are converging. It demonstrates that increasingly individualized value systems do not necessarily mirror a more individualistic society.

Size and Local Democracy

Size and Local Democracy
Author: Bas Denters
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2014-09-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1783478241

How large should local governments be, and what are the implications of changing the scale of local governments for the quality of local democracy? These questions have stood at the centre of debates among scholars and public sector reformers alike fro

Ruling the Void

Ruling the Void
Author: Peter Mair
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2023-01-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1839767898

A classic account of democracy's crisis of legitimacy The age of party democracy has passed, argues Peter Mair in Ruling the Void. The major parties have become so disconnected from society that they no longer seem capable of sustaining democracy in its present form. First published in 2013, Ruling the Void presciently observed that the widening gap between citizens and their political leaders posed a crisis of legitimacy for the governing class, and was fuelling populist mobilizations against it. Europe’s political elites had remodelled themselves as a homogeneous professional class, withdrawing into state institutions that offer relative stability in a world of fickle voters. Meanwhile, non-democratic agencies and practices proliferated – not least among them the European Union itself. Mair weighs the impact of these changes, and offers an authoritative assessment of the prospects for popular political representation today, not only in the varied democracies of Britain and the EU but throughout the developed world. With a new Introduction by Chris Bickerton, author of The European Union: A Citizen’s Guide.

The Marketplace of Print

The Marketplace of Print
Author: Alexandra Halasz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2006-12-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521034708

Early modern pamphlets serve as an important vehicle for examining the print culture of the time, and especially the developing entanglement between technology and capitalism. Combining close readings of pamphlets by Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe, Thomas Deloney and others with a discussion of the history and deployment of print technology, The Marketplace of Print is both a work of historical recovery and a reflection on the ongoing relationship between the marketplace and the public sphere.

The Civic Culture Transformed

The Civic Culture Transformed
Author: Russell J. Dalton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2014-12-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1316123537

This book re-evaluates Almond, Verba, and Pye's original ideas about the shape of a civic culture that supports democracy. Marshaling a massive amount of cross-national, longitudinal public opinion data from the World Values Survey Association, the authors demonstrate multiple manifestations of a deep shift in the mass attitudes and behaviors that undergird democracy. The chapters in this book show that in dozens of countries around the world, citizens have turned away from allegiance toward a decidedly 'assertive' posture to politics: they have become more distrustful of electoral politics, institutions, and representatives and are more ready to confront elites with demands from below. Most importantly, societies that have advanced the most in the transition from an allegiant to an assertive model of citizenship are better-performing democracies - in terms of both accountable and effective governance.

Handbook of Multilevel Analysis

Handbook of Multilevel Analysis
Author: Jan Deleeuw
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2007-12-26
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0387731865

This book presents the state of the art in multilevel analysis, with an emphasis on more advanced topics. These topics are discussed conceptually, analyzed mathematically, and illustrated by empirical examples. Multilevel analysis is the statistical analysis of hierarchically and non-hierarchically nested data. The simplest example is clustered data, such as a sample of students clustered within schools. Multilevel data are especially prevalent in the social and behavioral sciences and in the biomedical sciences. The chapter authors are all leading experts in the field. Given the omnipresence of multilevel data in the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences, this book is essential for empirical researchers in these fields.

Media Pluralism and Diversity

Media Pluralism and Diversity
Author: Peggy Valcke
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2015-08-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137304308

Adopting a truly global, theoretical and multidisciplinary perspective, Media Pluralism and Diversity intends to advance our understanding of media pluralism across the globe. It compares metrics that have been developed in different parts of the world to assess levels of, or threats to, media pluralism.

Political Action

Political Action
Author: Samuel Henry Barnes
Publisher: Beverly Hills, Calif. : Sage Publications
Total Pages: 620
Release: 1979
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

Offers a study of conventional and unconventional political behaviour in five developed nations. Drawing on survey data from Britain, Holland, West Germany, the United States and Austria, this work seeks to explain the waves of political protest that swept through the advanced industrial democracies in the late 1960s.

Ayreen Anastas & Rene Gabri

Ayreen Anastas & Rene Gabri
Author: Ayreen Anastas
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2023-12-16
Genre: Art
ISBN: 3775750193

Notebook 089 is a result of the immense changes that have taken place in the world since 1989. With the end of the Cold War, the utopian neoliberal fantasy of a global capitalist expansion, unfettered by the limits of any borders (psychic, physical, ethical, national, or ecological) and governed through an extension of credit/debt coupled with correlated "structural adjustments," assumed a new function for nation-states around the world, as a privatizer of gains, and a socializer of costs. In a span of twenty years the insolvency of this paradigm has become evident; not only has an entire world been gripped by conflict, depression, extreme inequalities, and irreversible ecological damage, but, in addition, the economic basis underwriting all of this is unable to continue without the very state intervention that had supposedly been rendered unnecessary. These notes do not recount this story, but rather take place in its wake, while also marking out the process of thinking through this critical epoch, in the midst of collective meetings and discussions leading up to and through what would be called Occupy. Rather than fixing these movements, this notebook collects a series of positions, ideas, and conversations, which trace individual articulations and provide multiple cartographies of events in which people said "no" to regimes of concentrated wealth/power from Cochabamba to Tunis, from Cairo to Fukushima, from Madrid to Athens, from New York to Carbondale, and beyond. Here, one will find a continuation of those struggles for autonomy and the affirmation of different forms of life in note form. Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri are artists and Agents for dOCUMENTA (13).