...Rethinking Democratic Innovation. Frank Hendriks, Oxford University Press. © Frank Hendriks (2023). DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192848291.003.0004 This chapter explores the emerging, hitherto underconceptualized, new plebiscitary democracy, which reinvents and radicalizes longer-existing...

... catch‐all parties NATO Panebianco A war on Iraq Dalton R accountability elitist democracy plebiscitary democracy presidentialization structural and contingent causes of presidentialization The point of departure for this volume was the observation that a variety of academic and non‐academic...

... that democratization remains incomplete due to the people not actively practicing it. The chapter also explores the idea of plebiscitary democracy compared to direct democracy and the effects it may have on the people. Berlin Isaiah 1909– British historian Hamilton Alexander 1757–1804 U S statesman Jefferson Thomas...

... Peters Winston coalition governments party organizational reform leadership selectorate leadership contests party members intra-party democracy plebiscitary democracy This chapter focuses on changes over time in the leadership selectorate and in doing so explains the decision of many parties...

...This chapter introduces in a preliminary way the main features of a theory of plebiscitary democracy whose elaboration and defense will be the purpose of the succeeding chapters. Section 1.2 argues that, in spite of both moral and intellectual suspicion of spectatorship as a legitimate topic...

... partisan citizen plebiscitary democracy spectatorship publicity People self legislation sovereignty public opinion voting Dahl Robert pluralism Habermas Jürgen Lefort Claude Rosanvallon Pierre ocular model of popular empowerment plebiscitarianism plebiscitary democracy candor participatory...

... hybrid democratic innovation HDI Rosanvallon P democratic innovation deliberative democracy mini-public plebiscitary democracy action-oriented democracy do-ocracy collaborative governance concretization impact mixed regime Without losing sight of the wider and longer-standing discourse...

...This chapter revisits the overly maligned concept of plebiscitary democracy, reviewing its historical development, and arguing for its relevance as a present-day ethical paradigm. The chapter is organized as follows. Section 4.2 reviews the standard, purely pejorative interpretation of plebiscitary...

... education civic Machtstaat ecstasy moments prophets Luther Martin miracle Pericles demagoguery Johnson Andrew Tulis Jeffrey inquiries public public inquiries Weimar Constitution homogeneity of democratic people alleged nature of Nazi Party plebiscitary democracy popular voice Schmitt Carl...

... of contemporary mass democracy: leadership debates, public inquiries of leaders, and press conferences. Section 6.6 concludes by summarizing the logic of putting candor first. candor democratic reform plebiscitary democracy Shakespeare William deliberation participation publicity transparency Gyurcsàny...

... rationality public reason Rawls John Gutmann Amy Thompson Dennis Ackerman Bruce Fishkin James People plebiscitary democracy spectatorial engagement political involvement political participation being-ruled democratic theory Aristotle plebiscitary democracy Be secret and exult, Because of all...

.... 45 62. Hendriks, F., Unravelling the New Plebiscitary Democracy: Towards a Research Agenda, Government & Opposition, 2021, 56, 4, pp. 615 39. Finally, my gratitude goes to my amazing wife Barbet, and our equally amazing daughters Eva and Meike who do not cease to inspire me and put up with me, even...