Reforming Democracies: Six Facts about Politics That Demand a New Agenda

by Douglas A. Chalmers

Book Overview

Even well-established democracies need reform, and any successful effort to reform democracies must look beyond conventional institutions--elections, political parties, special interests, legislatures and their relations with chief executives--to do so.

Expanding a traditional vision of the institutions of representative democracy, Douglas A. Chalmers examines six aspects of political practice relating to the people being represented, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231162952
• ISBN13: 9780231162951
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 8.0"