Democracy, Participation and Public Administration: A Systems Approach

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

The democratic state is unravelling. Authoritarians exploit its deficits to disguise attacks on democracy as democratic renewal, while Silicon Valley searches for ways to replace public service with private technology. Countering these threats to democratic governance requires thinking administratively about democracy and democratically about administration.

This book develops a novel democratic systems theory that puts public admin...