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• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Something happened to democracy
• Trying to move beyond ‘parochial’ views of changes
• Outline of the book: the argument in brief
• 1 Party Democracy Challenged
• The cartel strategy and its limits
• The challenge to parties of an unfriendly environment
• Another partisan response to challenges: the presidentialization of politics
• The uncoupling between politics and policy-making:spiral effects and paradoxes
• 2 Mediatization and Audience Democracy
• The impact of media commercialization on politics:complex and multifaceted
• Can the media see behind front-stage?
• New media: a change of logic?
• The limits of audience democracy
• 3 Internationalisation, Europeanization, and Multilevel Governance
• Internationalization of governance: limits to inclusiveness and accountability
• Global civil society: the solution?
• The democratic deficit of private governance: invisible and by stealth
• Europeanization and multilevel governance
• Overall assessment and prospects
• 4 Collaborative Governance and Cooperative Policy-Making
• A move from ‘government’ to ‘governance’?
• Why collaborative governance?
• Collaborative governance, representation, and accountability
• More horizontal governance, less democracy?
• 5 Empowering the Citizen or the Customer?
• Deliberative and participatory experiments: do they matter?
• New Public Management and subsequent reform layers:who are the winners?
• The ‘accountability agenda’: failed promises, limited relevance?
• 6 Limits To Majority Rule: Agencification and Judicialization
• Agencification by contagion
• More accountability, less democracy?
• Judicialization: part of juridification, sustained through internationalization
• Judges as account-holders and as legislators: a controversial role
• Gains or losses for the quality of democracy?
• 7 The Winter of Democracy?
• Challenges to democracy: their logics and implications
• The marginalization of parliamentary institutions
• The technocratization of policy-making
• The advent of advocacy democracy
• The divorce between front- and back-stage: a reinforcement loop
• After the winter?
• Bibliography
• Index