Panel I: Systemic Reforms of National Democracy –
Successes and Failures
The more vetoes the better? On the ambiguous
relationship between veto players and democratic reform
in consensus democracies
Kristof Jacobs
Strengthening democracy by
means of constitutional pluralism?
Marcus Hahn-Lorber
Democratic theory and citizen
participation: Democracy models in the evaluation of
public participation in science and technology
Peter Biegelbauer, Janus Hansen
Direct democracy and
federalism: What can Austria learn from
Switzerland?
Reinhard Neck, Dieter Fellner
Panel II: Assessing the Democratic Quality and
Performance of Representative Democracy and Its
Institutions
The basic concept for the
democracy ranking of the quality of democracy
David F. J. Campbell, Thorsten D. Barth
Democracy in Austria now,
then and in the future: a comparative view through
statistical lenses and mass surveys
Jan Kutylowski
Do
we have adequate theoretical and empirical bases to assess
representative democracy in Austria?
Christoph Konrath
Between joint project,
institutional bargaining and symbolic politics:
initiatives for federalism reform in Germany, Austria and
Switzerland
Florian Grotz, Klaus Poier
Panel III: Political Parties and the Democratic Deficit
– Reforming Party-based Democracy
Party organization and party democracy:
representation in the European Parliament and the
national governments
William T. Daniel
Examining the impact of
institutional openness on patterns of political
participation
Henrik Serup Christensen
Improving democracy
through citizens’ deliberation
Irena Fiket, Vincenzo Memoli
Politicaltrust
in new European democracies – implications for established
democracies like Austria
Daniela Braun
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