World, Democracy, European, Political Science, History, Political Ideologies 

This books is a collection of critical essays on associative democracy by a team of authors from Demark, Germany, the Netherland, Poland and the UK. It uses distinct national experiences to evaluate how far associative democracy has developed in Europe. Associative Democracy is based on developing public functions to state funded but democratically self- governing associations in civil society.
Associationalism is a political model that can be used to reform governance in an organizational society and to make it more compatible with the values and interests of a culturally diverse and individuated citizenry… it should not be presented as an alternative society… state, markets the and organizations will remain. … An Associationalism system will not of in and of itself eliminate poverty or social exclusion. A society of self- governing association not only creative scope for the success and failure of individuals, but also the association in which they are involved. Public power will remain to cope with the worst of such problems and abuses. Associationalism supplement, but does not replace, the liberal state. However, one must admit that such problems are intrinsic to a system that gives great scope for dispersed democratic control and local initiative.
 

This book aims to unlock the current crisis in democratic accountability by supplementing representative democracy with democratic governance in civil society. - from Amzon 

Introduction By Viet Bader…………………………………………………………………………….p. 1
Can Associationalism Come Back? By Paul Hirs……………………………………………p. 15
Problems and Prospects of Associative Democracy: Cohen and Rogers Revisited
By Veit Bader…………………………………………………………………………………………………..p. 31
Associo-Deliberative Democracy and Qualitative Participation
By Piotr Perczynski………..........................................…………………………………p. 71
Association and Deliberation in Risk Society: Two Faces of Ecological Democracy
By Wouter Achterberg……………………………………………………………………………………….p. 85
Associationalism for 150 Years and Still Alive and Kicking: Some Reflections on Danish Civil Society Lars Bo Kaspersen and Laila Ottesen…………….…………….p. 105
Globalisation and Multilevel Governance in Europe: Realist Criteria for Institutional Design, or How Pessimistic Should One Be? By Ewald Engele.............………p. 131
Reflexive Governance and Indigenous Self-Rule: Lessons in Associative Democracy?
By Andre J. Hoekema…………………………………………...................……………………p. 157
Associative Democracy and the Incorporation of Minorities: Critical Remarks on Paul Hirst's Associative Democracy By Veit Bader……………………………………………..p. 187