Economic Efficiency, Democratic Empowerment Contested Modernization in Britain and Germany

Chapter 1 Reform-Gridlock and Hyper-Innovation: Germany, Britain and the Project of Societal Modernisation (Ingolfur Blühdorn/Uwe Jun)
Chapter 2 Radical Reformers-Defiant Electorates? Reform Policy and International Competitiveness under Schroeder And Blair (Uwe Jun)
Chapter 3 Democracy, Efficiency, Futurity: Contested Objectives of Societal Reform (Ingolfur Blühdorn)
Chapter 4 Democratic Deficits-Democratic Renewal: Political Detachment, Constitutional Reform and the Politics of Re-engagement in the UK (Lewis Baston)
Chapter 5 Misguided Consensualism: Prospects for Reform of the Party-Dominated Federal System in Germany (Frank Decker)
Chapter 6 From Corporatist Consensualism to the Politics of Commissions: German Welfare Reform and the Inefficiency of theAlliance for Jobs (Sven Jochem)
Chapter 7 Efficiency versus Accountability? Modernizing Governance and Democratic Renewal in Britain, 1997-2005 (Matthew Flinders)
Chapter 8 Efficiency in Political Communication and Public Management: A Comparative Analysis of New Labour and the SPD (Uwe Jun)
Chapter 9 Efficiency versus Party Democracy? Political Parties and Societal Modernisation in Germany (Elmar Wiesendahl)
Chapter 10 German Trade Unions: Partners for Reform or Trapped in Nested Games? (Josef Schmid and Christian Steffen)
Chapter 11 Participation, Innovation and Efficiency: Social Movements and the New Genetics in Germany and the UK (Ian Welsh)
Chapter 12 The Third Transformation of Democracy: On the Efficient Management of Late-modern Complexity (Ingolfur Blühdorn)