Demokratie als Selbst-Regieren

The future of democracy needs to be redesigned - this book offers a new approach. It argues that citizens should decide for themselves how they want to govern and be governed, linking representative, deliberative and participatory theories of democracy with empirical evidence. On this basis, it proposes practices that support communities in developing their own visions of democracy. As such, this book is of central interest to scholars and students of democracy and citizenship education, as well as policy makers and civil society.