The future of democracy needs to be redesigned - this book offers a new approach. It argues
that citizens should decide for themselves how they want to govern and be governed linking
representative deliberative and participatory theories of democracy with empirical evidence.
On this basis it proposes practices that support communities in developing their own visions
of democracy. As such this book is of central interest to scholars and students of democracy
and citizenship education as well as policy makers and civil society.
