This book aims to unlock the current crisis in democratic accountability by supplementing representative democracy with democratic governance in civil society.

Chapter 1 Introduction, VEIT BADER; Chapter 2 Can Associationalism Come Back?, Paul Hirst; Chapter 3 Problems and Prospects of Associative Democracy: Cohen and Rogers Revisited, Veit Bader; Chapter 4 Associo-Deliberative Democracy and Qualitative Part icipation, Piotr Perczynski; Chapter 5 Association and Deliberation in Risk Society: Two Faces of Ecological Democracy, Wouter Achterberg; Chapter 6 Associationalism for 150 Years and Still Alive and Kicking: Some Reflections on Danish Civil Society, Lars Bo Kaspersen, Laila Ottesen; Chapter 7 Globalisation and Multilevel Governance in Europe: Realist Criteria for Institutional Design, or How Pessimistic Should One Be?, Ewald Engelen; Chapter 8 Reflexive Governance and Indigenous Self-Rule: Lessons in Associative Democracy?, André J Hoekema; Chapter 9 Associative Democracy and the Incorporation of Minorities: Critical Remarks on Paul Hirst's Associative Democracy, Veit Bader; Abstracts; Index;