Beschreibung:
This book argues that we are in need of normative guidelines and a strong understanding of a range of institutional options and innovative experiments in associative democracy to address the structural problems of existing institutional arrangements whilst maintaining and strengthening democratic forms of government and governance.
Introduction 1. Crises of democratic capitalism and prospects for democracy 2. A theory of complex democracy: Setting the stage 3. Democracy or expertocracy? Ecological crises and ecological democracy 4. Crisis of political parties and representative democracies: Rethinking parties in associational, experimentalist governance 5. Democratizing healthcare 6. Democratizing the economy: Institutionalizing alternatives to 'capitalism as we know it'