Notes on Contributors
1. Rethinking Democracy: Introduction (ANDREW GAMBLE and TONY
WRIGHT)
2. Democracy and its Discontents (TONY WRIGHT)
3. Feminist Reflections on Representative Democracy (JONI
LOVENDUSKI)
4. Why is Democracy so Surprising? (DAVID RUNCIMAN)
5. Constitutional Reform: Death, Rebirth and Renewal (VERNON
BOGDANOR)
6. Three Types of Majority Rule (ALBERT WEALE)
7. Rethinking Political Communication (ALAN FINLAYSON)
8. Protecting Democratic Legitimacy in a Digital Age (MARTIN
MOORE)
9. Rethinking Democracy with Social Media (HELEN MARGETTS)
10. Post-Democracy and Populism (COLIN CROUCH)
11. Relating and Responding to the Politics of Resentment (GERRY
STOKER)
12. A Hundred Years of British Democracy (ANDREW GAMBLE)
Index
Andrew Gamble is Professor of Politics at the University
of Sheffield and Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University
of Cambridge. His most recent books are Can the Welfare State
Survive? (2016) and Politics: Why it Matters (forthcoming 2019). In
2005 he received the Isaiah Berlin Prize from the UK Political
Studies Association for lifetime contribution to political
studies.
Tony Wright is a former Labour MP and former editor
of The Political Quarterly, now Professor of Government and
Public Policy at University College London. He is currently
preparing a new edition of his British Politics: A Very Short
Introduction.
"There's never been a more pressing time to question every aspect
of our inadequate democracy."
—Polly Toynbee "This important book shows the many challenges
democracy faces in a world of populism and radical digital
change."
—Margaret Hodge
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