Democracy and Crisis Challenges in Turbulent Times
In light of the public and scholarly debates on the challenges and problems of established democracies, such as a lack of participation, declining confidence in political elites, and the deteriorating capabilities of democratic institutions, this volume d
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mocracy and Crisis Challenges in Turbulent Times
Democracy and Crisis
Wolfgang Merkel • Sascha Kneip Editors
Democracy and Crisis Challenges in Turbulent Times
Editors Wolfgang Merkel WZB Berlin Social Science Center and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Berlin, Germany
Sascha Kneip WZB Berlin Social Science Center Berlin, Germany
ISBN 978-3-319-72558-1 ISBN 978-3-319-72559-8 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72559-8
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Contents
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Challenge or Crisis of Democracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wolfgang Merkel
Part I
1
Participation
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Crisis of Democracy? Views of Experts and Citizens . . . . . . . . . . . . Werner Krause and Wolfgang Merkel
31
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Political Inequality in Voting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bernhard Weßels
49
4
Are Programmatic Alternatives Disappearing? The Quality of Election Manifestos in 21 OECD Countries Since the 1950s . . . . Andrea Volkens and Nicolas Merz
5
Are Right-Wing Populist Parties a Threat to Democracy? . . . . . . . Marcus Spittler
Part II
71 97
Representation
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Inequality in Political Representation: Is the Lower Social Stratum Worse Represented? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Pola Lehmann, Sven Regel, and Sara Schlote
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Decline or Change? Party Types and the Crisis of Representative Democracy . . . . .
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