The book argues that we can remake and renew our ideas of democracy. It builds, defends, and illustrates the democratic design framework -- a new tool for politicians, reformers, and observers facing the great challenges of democracy around the world today.

Michael Saward is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. A former Head of Politics at the Open University, he has published widely on democratic theory and practice, including The Representative Claim (Oxford University Press, 2010) and Making Representations (ECPR Press and Rowman and Littlefield International, 2020). He is co-editor of Enacting European Citizenship (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance (Oxford University Press, 2020).

• Introduction


• 1: Approaches to Democracy


• 2: Design Thinking for Democracy


• 3: The Democratic Design Framework: Motivations and the Dual Core


• 4: The Democratic Design Framework: Relational Elements and Guiding Precepts


• 5: The Work of Democratic Design


• 6: Design in Practice: An Illustration


• Conclusion