Democracy transformed? : expanding political opportunities in advanced industrial democracies / edited by Bruce Cain, Russell J. Dalton, and Susan Scarrow.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [276]-303) and index.

Foreword / Austin Ranney -- New forms of democracy? Reform and transformation of democratic institutions / Russell J. Dalton, Susan E. Scarrow and Bruce E. Cain -- Expanding the electoral marketplace / Russell J. Dalton and Mark Gray -- Making elections more direct? Reducing the role of parties in elections / Susan E. Scarrow -- Political parties and the rhetoric and realities of democratization / Miki Caul Kittilson and Susan E. Scarrow -- Changing party access to elections / Shaun Bowler, Elisabeth Carter and David M. Farrell -- Towards more open democracies : the expansion of freedom of information laws / Bruce E. Cain, Patrick Egan and Sergio Fabbrini -- Trends in decentralization / Christopher Ansell and Jane Gingrich -- Reforming the administrative state / Christopher Ansell and Jane Gingrich -- Participation, representative democracy, and the courts / Rachel A. Cichowski and Alec Stone Sweet -- A second transformation of democracy? / Mark E. Warren -- Democratic publics and democratic institutions / Russell J. Dalton, Bruce E. Cain and Susan E. Scarrow.