TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gamble,Andrew
AU  - Wright,Tony
TI  - Rethinking Democracy
T2  - Political Quarterly Monograph Series
SN  - 9781119554776
AV  - JC423 .R484 2019 
U1  - 321.8 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Newark
PB  - John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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 -- 6. Three Types of Majority Rule -- A 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 -- Examining the evidence for the death of democracy -- Taking 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; 12. A Hundred Years of British Democracy -- Notes -- Index -- End User License Agreement
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