Accessing Resources via Hierarchical Exploration of Topic Areas

DIRECT DEMOCRACY AND POPULISM

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1. DEMOCRACY DISENCHANTMENT ⏵

Medearis, J. (2015). Why democracy is oppositional. Harvard University Press.

1.1 Causes

Claassen, C. (2020). In the Mood for Democracy? Democratic Support as Thermostatic Opinion. In American Political Science Review (Vol. 114, Issue 1, pp. 36–53).
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1.2 Potential remedies ⏵

1.2.1 Mini publics ⏵

Bedock, C., & Pilet, J.-B. (2020). Enraged, Engaged, or Both? A Study of the Determinants of Support for Consultative vs. Binding Mini-Publics. Representation, 59(1), 33–53.
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Jacquet, V., & van der Does, R. (2021a). Deliberation and Policy-Making: Three Ways to Think About Minipublics’ Consequences. Administration & Society, 53(3), 468–487.
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Jacquet, V., & van der Does, R. (2021b). The Consequences of Deliberative Minipublics: Systematic Overview, Conceptual Gaps, and New Directions. Representation, 57(1), 131–141.
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Kuyper, J. W., & Wolkenstein, F. (2019). Complementing and correcting representative institutions: When and how to use mini‐publics. European Journal of Political Research, 58(2), 656–675.
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Paulis, E., Pilet, J.-B., Panel, S., Vittori, D., & Close, C. (2020). The POLITICIZE dataset: An inventory of deliberative mini-publics (DMPs) in Europe. European Political Science, 7(11), 236.
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Van Crombrugge, R. (2020). The Derailed Promise of a Participatory Minipublic: The Citizens’ Assembly Bill in Flanders. Journal of Deliberative Democracy, 16(2), 63–72.
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van der Does, R., & Jacquet, V. (2021). Small-Scale Deliberation and Mass Democracy: A Systematic Review of the Spillover Effects of Deliberative Minipublics. Political Studies, 71(1), 218–237.
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1.2.1.1 Advantages

Bächtiger, A., Setälä, M., & Grönlund, K. (2014). Towards a new era of deliberative mini-publics. In Deliberative mini-publics: Involving citizens in the democratic process (pp. 225–241). ECPR Press.
Boulianne, S. (2018). Mini-publics and public opinion: Two survey-based experiments. Political Studies, 66(1), 119–136.
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Goodin, R. E., & Dryzek, J. S. (2006). Deliberative impacts: The macro-political uptake of mini-publics. Politics & Society, 34(2), 219–244.
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Jacquet, V. (2017). Explaining non‐participation in deliberative mini‐publics. European Journal of Political Research, 56(3), 640–659.
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Lafont, C. (2015). Deliberation, participation, and democratic legitimacy: Should deliberative mini‐publics shape public policy? Journal of Political Philosophy, 23(1), 40–63.
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Landemore, H. (2020a). Open democracy and digital technologies. In L. Bernholz, H. Landemore, & R. Reich (Eds.), Digital Technology and Democratic Theory.
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Niemeyer, S. (2011). The emancipatory effect of deliberation: Empirical lessons from mini-publics. Politics & Society, 39(1), 103–140.
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Niemeyer, S. (2014). Scaling up deliberation to mass publics: Harnessing mini-publics in a deliberative system. Deliberative Mini-Publics: Involving Citizens in the Democratic Process, 177–202.
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Setälä, M. (2014). Deliberative mini-publics: Involving citizens in the democratic process. ECPR press.
Setälä, M. (2017). Connecting deliberative mini‐publics to representative decision making. European Journal of Political Research, 56(4), 846–863.
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Setälä, M., & Smith, G. (2018). Mini-publics and deliberative democracy. In A. Bächtiger, J. S. Dryzek, J. Mansbridge, & M. Warren (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of deliberative democracy (pp. 300–314).
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Vandamme, P.-É. (2018). Des référendums plus délibératifs? Les atouts du vote justifié. Participations, 20(1), 29–52.
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1.2.1.2 Critiques

Van Crombrugge, R. (2020). The Derailed Promise of a Participatory Minipublic: The Citizens’ Assembly Bill in Flanders. Journal of Deliberative Democracy, 16(2), 63–72.
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1.2.2 Sortition

Abizadeh, A. (2021). Representation, bicameralism, political equality, and sortition: Reconstituting the second chamber as a randomly selected assembly. Perspectives on Politics, 19(3), 791–806.
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Bedock, C., & Pilet, J.-B. (2020a). Enraged, Engaged, or Both? A Study of the Determinants of Support for Consultative vs. Binding Mini-Publics. Representation, 59(1), 33–53.
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Bedock, C., & Pilet, J.-B. (2020b). Who Supports Citizens Selected by Lot to be the Main Policymakers? A Study of French Citizens. Government and Opposition, 1, 20.
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Bouricius, T. (2017). Sortition: Envisaging a new form of democracy that enables decision-making for long-term sustainability. In Methods for Sustainability Research. Edward Elgar Publishing.
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Bouricius, T. (2018). Why Hybrid Bicameralism Is Not Right for Sortition. Politics & Society, 46(3), 435–451.
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Bouricius, T. G. (2013). Democracy through multi-body sortition: Athenian lessons for the modern day. Journal of Public Deliberation, 9(1).
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Caserta, M., Pluchino, A., Rapisarda, A., & Spagano, S. (2021). Why lot? How sortition could help representative democracy. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications, 565, 125430.
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Courant, D. (2019). Sortition and Democratic Principles: A Comparative Analysis. In J. Gastil & E. O. Wright (Eds.), Legislature by Lot: Transformative Designs for Deliberative Governance (pp. 229–248). Verso.
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Dowlen, O. (2009). Sorting out sortition: A perspective on the random selection of political officers. Political Studies, 57(2), 298–315.
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Dowlen, O. (2017). The political potential of sortition: A study of the random selection of citizens for public office (Vol. 4). Andrews UK Limited.
Dunlop, T. (2019). Sortition: Reimagining democracy. Griffith REVIEW, 64, 215.
Gąsiorowska, A. (2023). Sortition and its Principles: Evaluation of the Selection Processes of Citizens’ Assemblies. Ournal of Deliberative Democracy, 19(1), 1–10.
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Gastil, J., & Richards, R. (2013). Making Direct Democracy Deliberative through Random Assemblies. Politics & Society, 41(2), 253–281.
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Gastil, J., & Wright, E. O. (2018). Legislature by lot: Envisioning Sortition within a bicameral system. Politics & Society, 46(3), 303–330.
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Hollard, V. (2019). Election and sortition in Ancient Rome: Was there such a thing as a Roman democracy? Participations, 117–137.
Jacquet, V., Niessen, C., & Reuchamps, M. (2020). Sortition, its advocates and its critics: An empirical analysis of citizens’ and MPs’ support for random selection as a democratic reform proposal. International Political Science Review.
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Malleson, T. (2018). Should democracy work through elections or sortition? Politics & Society, 46(3), 401–417.
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Pek, S. (2019a). Drawing Out Democracy: The Role of Sortition in Preventing and Overcoming Organizational Degeneration in Worker-Owned Firms. Journal of Management Inquiry, 30(2), 193–206.
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Sintomer, Y. (2018). From deliberative to radical democracy? Sortition and politics in the twenty-first century. Politics & Society, 46(3), 337–357.
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1.2.3 Referendums ⏵

Gherghina, S., & Silagadze, N. (2020). Populists and Referendums in Europe: Dispelling the Myth. The Political Quarterly, 91(4), 795–805.
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Rojon, S., & Rijken, A. J. (2020). Are radical right and radical left voters direct democrats? Explaining differences in referendum support between radical and moderate voters in Europe. European Societies, 22(5), 581–609.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2020.1823008
Rojon, S., & Rijken, A. J. (2021). Referendums: Increasingly unpopular among the ‘winners’ of modernization? Comparing public support for the use of referendums in Switzerland, the Netherlands, the UK, and Hungary. Comparative European Politics, 19(1), 49–76.
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Vandamme, P.-É. (2018). Des référendums plus délibératifs? Les atouts du vote justifié. Participations, 20(1), 29–52.
https://doi.org/10.3917/parti.020.0029

1.2.3.1 Design matters

Arrhenius, G. (2005). The boundary problem in democratic theory. In F. Tersman (Ed.), Democracy Unbound: Basic Explorations I (pp. 14–29).
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Chambers, S. (2001). Constitutional referendums and democratic deliberation. In M. Mendelsohn & A. Parkin (Eds.), Referendum democracy (pp. 231–255). Springer.
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Cheneval, F., & el-Wakil, A. (2018). The Institutional Design of Referendums: Bottom-Up and Binding. Swiss Political Science Review, 24(3), 294–304.
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Chollet, A. (2018). Referendums are true democratic devices. Swiss Political Science Review, 24(3), 342–347.
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el-Wakil, A., & Cheneval, F. (2018). Designing Popular Vote Processes to Enhance Democratic Systems. Swiss Political Science Review, 24(3), 348–358.
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Folkestad, B., Klausen, J. E., Saglie, J., & Segaard, S. B. (2019). When do consultative referendums improve democracy? Evidence from local referendums in Norway. International Political Science Review, 42(2), 213–228.
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McKay, S. (2019). Building a better referendum: Linking mini-publics and mass publics in popular votes. Journal of Public Deliberation, 15(1), 1–29.
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Mendelsohn, M., & Parkin, A. (2001). Referendum democracy: Citizens, elites and deliberation in referendum campaigns. Springer.
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Moeckli, D. (2018). Referendums: Tyranny of the majority? Swiss Political Science Review, 24(3), 335–341.
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Reidy, T., & Suiter, J. (2015). Do rules matter? Categorizing the regulation of referendum campaigns. Electoral Studies, 38, 159–169.
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Renwick, A., Palese, M., & Sargeant, J. (2020). Information in Referendum Campaigns: How Can It Be Improved? Representation, 56(4), 521–537.
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Setälä, M. (2006). On the problems of responsibility and accountability in referendums. European Journal of Political Research, 45(4), 699–721.
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Setälä, M. (2011). The role of deliberative mini-publics in representative democracy: Lessons from the experience of referendums. Representation, 47(2), 201–213.
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1.2.3.2 Deliberative potential

Chambers, S. (2009). Rhetoric and the public sphere: Has deliberative democracy abandoned mass democracy? Political Theory, 37(3), 323–350.
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Chambers, S. (2018). Making Referendums Safe for Democracy: A Call for More and Better Deliberation. Swiss Political Science Review, 24(3), 305–311.
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el-Wakil, A. (2017). The Deliberative Potential of Facultative Referendums: Procedure and Substance in Direct Democracy. Democratic Theory, 4(1).
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el-Wakil, A. (2020). Supporting Deliberative Systems with Referendums and Initiatives. Journal of Deliberative Democracy, 16(1), 37–45.
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el-Wakil, A., & Cheneval, F. (2018). Designing Popular Vote Processes to Enhance Democratic Systems. Swiss Political Science Review, 24(3), 348–358.
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Gastil, J., & Knobloch, K. (2020). Hope for Democracy: How Citizens Can Bring Reason Back into Politics (1st ed.). Oxford University Press.
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Gastil, J., & Richards, R. (2013). Making Direct Democracy Deliberative through Random Assemblies. Politics & Society, 41(2), 253–281.
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Landemore, H. (2018). Referendums Are Never Merely Referendums: On the Need to Make Popular Vote Processes More Deliberative. Swiss Political Science Review, 24(3), 320–327.
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Levy, R. (2017). The Deliberative Case for Constitutional Referenda. Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy, 16(2), 213–221.
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Parkinson, J. (2020). The Roles of Referendums in Deliberative Systems. Representation, 56(4), 485–500.
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1.2.3.3 Critiques

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Urbinati, N. (2006). Representative Democracy: Principles and Genealogy. University of Chicago Press.
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1.2.4 Deliberation

Bächtiger, A., Dryzek, J. S., Mansbridge, J., & Warren, M. (2018a). Deliberative Democracy: An Intorduction. In The Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy The Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy (pp. 1–32). Oxford Academic.
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Curato, N., Dryzek, J. S., Ercan, S. A., Hendriks, C. M., & Niemeyer, S. (2017). Twelve key findings in deliberative democracy research. Daedalus, 146(3), 28–38.
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Dryzek, J. S. (2017). The forum, the system, and the polity: Three varieties of democratic theory. Political Theory, 45(5), 610–636.
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Dryzek, J. S., & List, C. (2003). Social Choice Theory and Deliberative Democracy: A Reconciliation. British Journal of Political Science, 33(1), 1–28.
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Elster, J. (2005). The Market and the Forum: Three Varieties of Political Theory. In T. Christiano (Ed.), Philosophy and Democracy: An Anthology (pp. 138–158). Routledge.
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Elstub, S., & Mclaverty, P. (Eds.). (2014). Deliberative democracy: Issues and cases. Edinburgh University Press.
Erman, E. (2013). In search of democratic agency in deliberative governance. European Journal of International Relations, 19(4), 847–868.
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Fishkin, J. (2015). Deliberative democracy. In Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Interdisciplinary, Searchable, and Linkable Resource (pp. 1–16). Wiley.
Fishkin, J. S. (2011). When the people speak: Deliberative democracy and public consultation. Oxford University Press.
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Gastil, J. (2000). By popular demand: Revitalizing representative democracy through deliberative elections. University of California Press.
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Gimmler, A. (2001). Deliberative democracy, the public sphere and the internet. Philosophy & Social Criticism, 27(4), 21–39.
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Goodin, R. E. (2008). Innovating Democracy: Democratic Theory and Practice After the Deliberative Turn. OUP Oxford.
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Gutmann, A., & Thompson, D. (2000). Why deliberative democracy is different. Social Philosophy and Policy, 17(1), 161–180.
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Gutmann, A., & Thompson, D. (2004). Why Deliberative Democracy? Princeton University Press.
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Habermas, J. (2015). Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy (W. Rehg, Trans.). The MIT Press.
Hamlett, P. W. (2003). Technology theory and deliberative democracy. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 28(1), 112–140.
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Hicks, D. (2002). The promise(s) of deliberative democracy. Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 5(2), 223–260.
Higgott, R., & Erman, E. (2010). Deliberative global governance and the question of legitimacy: What can we learn from the WTO? Review of International Studies, 449–470.
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Honig, B. (2007). Between Decision and Deliberation: Political Paradox in Democratic Theory. American Political Science Review, 101(1), 1–17.
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Jürgen, H. (1994). Three normative models of democracy. Constellation, 1(1), 1–10.
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Kim, J., Wyatt, R. O., & Katz, E. (1999). News, Talk, Opinion, Participation: The Part Played by Conversation in Deliberative Democracy. Political Communication, 16(4), 361–385.
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Kuyper, J. W. (2016). Systemic Representation: Democracy, Deliberation, and Nonelectoral Representatives. American Political Science Review, 110(2), 308–324.
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Mendelsohn, M., & Parkin, A. (2001). Referendum democracy: Citizens, elites and deliberation in referendum campaigns. Springer.
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1.2.5 Liquid democracy

Abramowitz, B., & Mattei, N. (2019). Flexible Representative Democracy: An Introduction with Binary Issues. Proceedings of the 28th International Joint Conference on AI.
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Blum, C., & Zuber, C. I. (2016). Liquid democracy: Potentials, problems, and perspectives. Journal of Political Philosophy, 24(2), 162–182.
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Brill, M., & Talmon, N. (2018). Pairwise Liquid Democracy. Proceedings of the 27th International Joint Conference on AI, 18, 137–143.
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Caragiannis, I., & Micha, E. (2019). A Contribution to the Critique of Liquid Democracy. Proceedings of the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 116–122.
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Escoffier, B., Gilbert, H., & Pass-Lanneau, A. (2019). The Convergence of Iterative Delegations in Liquid Democracy in a Social Network. In D. Fotakis & E. Markakis (Eds.), Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (pp. 284–297). Springer.
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Kavitha, T., Király, T., Matuschke, J., Schlotter, I., & Schmidt-Kraepelin, U. (2022). Popular branchings and their dual certificates. Mathematical Programming - Series B, 192, 567–595.
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Paulin, A. (2014). Through Liquid Democracy to Sustainable Non-Bureaucratic Government. JeDEM - eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government, 6(2), 216–230.
Paulin, A. (2020). An Overview of Ten Years of Liquid Democracy Research. 116–121.
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1.2.6 Plebeian politics

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Green, J. E. (2009). The Eyes of the People: Democracy in an Age of Spectatorship. Oxford University Press.
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Vergara, C. (2020b). Systemic Corruption: Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic. Princeton University Press.
Vergara Gonzalez, C. (2019). Assembling the Plebeian Republic. Popular Institutions against Systemic Corruption and Oligarchic Domination.
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1.2.7 Extra-institutional democratic practices

Aitchison, G. (2018). Domination and Disobedience: Protest, Coercion and the Limits of an Appeal to Justice. Perspectives on Politics, 16(3), 666–679.
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Bagg, S. (2018). The Power of the Multitude: Answering Epistemic Challenges to Democracy. American Political Science Review, 112(4), 891–904.
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Delmas, C. (2016). Civil Disobedience. Philosophy Compass, 11(11), 681–691.
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Hall, B. (2011). Review: Blessed are the organized: Grassroots democracy in America. Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, 23(3), 413–413.
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Medearis, J. (2004). Lost or obscured? How VI Lenin, Joseph Schumpeter, and Hannah Arendt misunderstood the council movement. Polity, 36(3), 447–476.
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Medearis, J. (2005). Social movements and deliberative democratic theory. British Journal of Political Science, 35(1), 53–75.
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Medearis, J. (2015). Why democracy is oppositional. Harvard University Press.
Medearis, J. (2018). After the Councils: Opposing Domination and Developing Democratic Agency. In J. Muldoon (Ed.), Council Democracy: Towards a Democratic Socialist Politics (pp. 191–209). Routledge.
Stout, J. (2010). Blessed are the organized: Grassroots democracy in America. Princeton University Press.
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2. PARTY DISENCHANTMENT ⏵

2.1 Descriptive data

Van Biezen, I., Mair, P., & Poguntke, T. (2012). Going, going,. . . Gone? The decline of party membership in contemporary Europe: Going, going,. . . Gone? European Journal of Political Research, 51(1), 24–56.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6765.2011.01995.x

2.2 Causes and effects

Wuttke, A. (2020). New political parties through the voters’ eyes. West European Politics, 43(1), 22–48.
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