Complex Democracy Varieties, Crises, and Transformations
This book presents a state-of-the art collection of original contributions on democracy, addressing three related themes: the complexity of modern democracies and their structural diversity; coping strategies of democracies in times of crises; and current
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Volker Schneider • Burkard Eberlein Editors
Complex Democracy Varieties, Crises, and Transformations
Editors Volker Schneider Department of Politics and Public Administration University of Konstanz Konstanz Germany
Burkard Eberlein School of Business York University Toronto Canada
ISBN 978-3-319-15849-5 ISBN 978-3-319-15850-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-15850-1
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Contents
Complex Democracy: An Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Volker Schneider and Burkard Eberlein Part I
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Varieties
Varieties of Democracy: ‘Proporzdemokratie’, ‘Consensus Democracy’, Liberal Democracy and Direct Democracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hanspeter Kriesi
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The Four Worlds of Democracy: Commentary on Arend Lijphart’s Revised Edition of Patterns of Democracy (2012) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Manfred G. Schmidt
29
‘Proporz’ or Polarization? The Religious Cleavage, the Division on the Left and the Party Systems of Southern Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . Philip Manow
51
Lehmbruch Versus Lijphart: Comparing Democratic Governments as Multidimensional Regimes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Arthur Benz
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A Delicate Relationship: Austria’s Oversensitivity–Germany’s Undersensitivity? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anton Pelinka
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Latent Institutional Elasticity: The Demise of Communism in the East Germany 1989/1990 and Gerhard Lehmbruch’s Concept of Administrative Interest Mediation . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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