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    Variations and Perspectives on Hybrid Designs

    This discerning book examines the promise and practice of hybrid democratic innovations that combine voting and deliberation within a single participatory design, while remaining anchored in representative democracy. While traditional scholarship has predominantly focused on either vote-centric or talk-centric forms of participation, this book shifts attention to hybrid models that harness the ... Read more

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    Vital Democracy outlines a theory of democracy in action, based on four elementary forms of democracy - pendulum, consensus, voter and participatory democracy - that are thoroughly analysed, compared and related to both the literature and the real world of democracy. Just like a few primary colours produce an array of shades, a few basic models of democracy appear, the author argues, to constitute ... Read more

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  • City in Sight

    Dutch Dealings with Urban Change

    Series series NICIS Publications on Urban Research
    Huge social transformations and turbulent political events – 9/11 and the political murders of Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh – have put urban issues high on the political agenda of the Netherlands. Against this background, the contributors to this volume bring the city in sight from various disciplinary perspectives and relate their research findings to both national and international debates on ... Read more

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    Systems biology is a vigorous and expanding discipline, in many ways a successor to genomics and perhaps unprecedented in its combination of biology with a great many other sciences, from physics to ecology, from mathematics to medicine, and from philosophy to chemistry. Studying the philosophical foundations of systems biology may resolve a longer standing issue, i.e., the extent to which Biology ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy in Europe

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy in Europe analyses the state of play of democracy at the subnational level in the 27 member states of the EU plus Norway and Switzerland. It places subnational democracy in the context of the distinctive Anglo, the French, the German and Scandinavian state traditions in Europe asking to what extent these are still relevant today. The Handbook ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Democratic Innovation

    Cultural Clashes and the Reform of Democracy

    Rethinking Democratic Innovation takes a fresh look at diverging visions of improving democratic governance and asks whether these existing tensions could be made productive. Could different visions of democratic revitalisation complement and correct each other in ways that are good for democracy? Is it conceivable that combined approaches address a larger part of the democratic challenge, while ... Read more

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