@article{2014:reiners:partizipat,
title = {Partizipatorische Modernisierungstrends. Bewertung von Referenden und Lösungen zur Krise repräsentativer Demokratie am Beispiel von Stuttgart 21},
year = {2014},
note = {The dispute about the use of referenda has intensified and meanwhile
takes centre stagewith the increasing problems of policy
intermediation and implementation. It is about thealleged democratic
deficit of the German representative political system and the
questionwhether the implementation of direct democratic forms of
participation can contribute tosolve the problems or whether such
forms should rather be classified as inhibiting innovation.The debate
shows its “explosive effect” in the controversy of Stuttgart 21
and continuesin the parliaments. The article confronts the arguments
of representative and directdemocratic forms of participation and
discusses whether a modernization gap needs to beclosed. Overall, it
is clear that a reversal to other system variants does not appear
reasonable.The question remains nevertheless, how such large-scale
projects can be resolved betterin the future. Science offers the
answers for this. [ZParl, vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 693 – 707]},
journal = {ZParl Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen},
pages = {693--707},
author = {Reiners, Markus},
volume = {45},
number = {3}
}