Author: David Beetham
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9781446226186
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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The rapid worldwide phase of democratization since the 1980s has stimulated a renewed interest in how we define and measure democracy. The contributors to this volume include leading political theorists, political scientists and experts in comparative government from across Europe. Defining and Measuring Democracy offers an integrated analysis of key debates and issues ranging from the question of how to define democracy to the issue of cultural diversity. Each chapter offers new insights and approaches placed in the context of contemporary debates.
Author: Michael Coppedge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521537274
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 377
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Democratization and Research Methods summarizes what researchers know about why countries become and remain democracies, and why they often do not. It also evaluates the various methods social scientists use to answer such questions. Michael Coppedge draws lessons that can be applied to any political phenomenon that is studied comparatively.
Author: Gerardo L. Munck
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801890934
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Drawing on years of academic research on democracy and measurement and practical experience evaluating democratic practices for the United Nations and the Organization of American States, the author presents constructive assessment of the methods used to measure democracies that promises to bring order to the debate in academia and in practice. He makes the case for reassessing how democracy is measured and encourages fundamental changes in methodology. He has developed two instruments for quantifying and qualifying democracy: the UN Development Programme's Electoral Democracy Index and a case-by-case election monitoring tool used by the OAS.
Author: Herman Kahn
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351502069
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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First Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
Author: Herman Kahn
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351502050
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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First Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
Author: Jørgen Møller
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136665846
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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This book examines theoretical and empirical approaches to measuring, defining and understanding democracy, and brings together the conceptual and theoretical writings of Joseph Schumpeter, Robert A. Dahl, Guillermo O’Donnell, and T. H. Marshal.
Author: Jørgen Møller
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136665838
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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This book brings together the conceptual and theoretical writings of Joseph Schumpeter, Robert A. Dahl, Guillermo O’Donnell, and T. H. Marshall. It demonstrates that most of the different conceptions of democracy in the democratization literature can be ordered in one systematic regime typology that distinguishes between ‘thinner’ and ‘thicker’ definitions of democracy. The authors argue that the empirical pattern revealed by this typology is explained by the combination of internal structural constraints and international factors facilitating democracy. The result of such contending forces is that most of the democratizations in recent decades have only produced competitive elections, rather than ‘more demanding’ attributes of democracy such as political liberties, the rule of law, and social rights. Examining theoretical and empirical approaches to measuring, defining and understanding democracy, the book will be of interest to scholars of political theory and comparative politics in general and democratization studies in particular.
Author: Julian Bernauer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108483380
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 307
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Presents a theoretically and methodologically sophisticated remapping and analysis of political-institutional power diffusion in democracies.
Author: Jane Jenson
Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat
ISBN: 9781849290234
Category : Social indicators
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Examines the literature on social cohesion. Presentsa range of indicators that have been used to measure social cohesion.
Author: Alex Inkeles
Publisher: Transaction Pub
ISBN: 9780887388811
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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