Assessing democratic quality and renewing the potential for democratic advance

Abstract

In the concluding part of the book, Patrick Dunleavy first gives an overall assessment of the UK’s changing liberal democracy, looking across all the areas covered in the preceding chapters. The second section involves standing back and drawing some wider-out implications – around the loss of a previously influential ‘Europeanisation’ narrative, the roles of micro-institutions, and the sheer difficulty of achieving a sustainable democratic state.