The price of democracy : how money shapes politics and what to do about it /
"Julia Cagé scrutinizes contemporary democracies and offers a new approach to the crisis of political representation. She proposes radical solutions for political funding and participation, including "Democratic Equality Vouchers" and a "Mixed Assembly" model where disadvant...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Democratic exhaustion
- Part One. When the poor pay for the rich: The cost of democracy : first benchmarks
- The private funding of democracy : a system designed for the rich
- The realities of private funding : when the taxes of the many pay for the conservative preferences of the few
- Beyond politics : private funding of the "public good"
- Part Two. Missed opportunities: A hope? Public funding of parties and election campaigns
- The public funding of democracy : a system in danger
- Are America's aberrations a danger for Europe?
- The price of a vote : from local elections to general microtargeting
- Part Three. Let's save democracy! Reshaping political and social democracy
- Has the last word been said? From the illusion of permanence to the novelty of democratic vouchers
- Towards a democratization of the "private" funding of democracy and a new way of publicly funding parties
- Towards a mixed assembly : social and political
- Conclusion: The prerequisites of "permanent" democracy.
