Institutional design beyond democratic innovations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12609776 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Claudia Landwehr (0000-0002-0814-3028, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 259-265 |
| Publication date | 2023-02-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-8230 • E-ISSN: 1743-8772 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13698230.2022.2159666 |
| OpenAlex | W4319313179 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 5 |
Steffen Ganghof’s Beyond Presidentialism and Parliamentarism can improve existing typologies in comparative government and has great potential for discussions about democratic innovation and reform. So far, democratic innovations like deliberative mini-publics have remained mostly additive, leaving the underlying decision-making logics of representative political systems unchanged. Ganghof’s ideas can move debates about how deliberative democracy is to be institutionalized forward. Semi-parliamentary government constitutes an intriguing option to meet both demands for legislative flexibility and responsiveness to citizens’ concerns and demands for stability and accountability. At the same time, I identify a limitation of the book in the fact that Ganghof’s normative theory of democracy remains thin. To appeal to citizens in constitutional reform processes, proposals for semi-parliamentary reform need to do more than reconcile conflicting visions of majority rule. They need to speak to democracy’s central promises of equal autonomy and rationality
Democracy · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · E-Government and Public Services · Law · Philosophy · Public Administration · Reformed Theology and Governance · Social Media and Politics
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 5 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |