ABSTRACT
Without doubt representative democracy, as we know it today, is transforming. There is a high level of consensus that established democracies ‘attend to their own gathering problems of public dissatisfaction and … disillusionment’, as Diamond and Morlino (2005: ix) put it. Thus representative democracy, giving citizens only the option to elect their representatives, is increasingly complemented with participatory innovations. These innovations are expected to solve at least some of the problems described by the authors in this volume.
