Economic Efficiency, Democratic Empowerment Contested Modernization in Britain and Germany

by Blühdorn, Ingolfur; Jun, Uwe

• ISBN13: 9780739112113
• ISBN10: 0739112112
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-02-09
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Democratic procedures are often inefficient; efficient structures tend to be undemocratic. Focusing on Germany and Great Britain as case studies, this book explores the meaning and compatibility of efficiency and democracy in the project of modernising advanced consumer democracies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
List of Figures and Tables	p. ix
Introduction
Reform-Gridlock and Hyper-Innovation: Germany, Britain and the Project of Societal Modernization	p. 3
Contexts and Concepts
Radical Reformers-Defiant Electorates? Reform Policy and International Competitiveness under Schroder and Blair	p. 31
Democracy, Efficiency, Futurity: Contested Objectives of Societal Reform	p. 69
Structures and Strategies
Democratic Deficits-Democratic Renewal: Political Detachment, Constitutional Reform, and the Politics of Reengagement in the UK	p. 101
Misguided Consensualism: Prospects for Reform of the Party-Dominated Federal System in Germany	p. 121
From Corporatist Consensualism to the Politics of Commissions: German Welfare Reform and the Inefficiency of the Alliance for Jobs	p. 147
Efficiency versus Accountability?: Modernizing Governance and Democratic Renewal in Britain, 1997-2005	p. 165
Efficiency in Political Communication and Public Management: A Comparative Analysis of New Labour and the SPD	p. 191
Actors
Efficiency versus Party Democracy? Political Parties and Societal Modernization in Germany	p. 219
German Trade Unions: Partners for Reform or Trapped in Nested Games?	p. 247
Participation, Innovation, and Efficiency: Social Movements and the New Genetics in Germany and the UK	p. 275
Prospects
The Third Transformation of Democracy: On the Efficient Management of Late-Modern Complexity	p. 299
About the Contributors	p. 333
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