The Future of Self-Governing, Thriving Democracies: Democratic Innovations By, With and For the People (Routledge Studies in Democratic Innovations) - Softcover

Geissel, Brigitte

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032285060 ISBN 13: 9781032285061

Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

This book offers a new approach for the future of democracy by advocating to give citizens the power to deliberate and to decide how to govern themselves.

Innovatively building on and integrating components of representative, deliberative and participatory theories of democracy with empirical findings, the book provides practices and procedures that support communities of all sizes to develop their own visions of democracy. It revitalizes and reinfuses the ‘democratic spirit’ going back to the roots of democracy as an endeavor by, with and for the people, and should inspire us in our search for the democracy we want to live in.

This book is of key interest to scholars and students in democracy, democratic innovations, deliberation, civic education and governance and further for policy-makers, civil society groups and activists. It encourages us to reshape democracy based on citizens’ perspectives, aspirations and preferences.

About this title

About the Author

Brigitte Geissel is Professor of Political Science and Political Sociology and Head of the Research Unit ‘Democratic Innovations’ at Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032285060
• ISBN 13: 9781032285061
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 252