Challenges of Democracy in the 21st Century (eBook, ePUB)

Concepts, Methods, Causality and the Quality of Democracy
Redaktion: Tomini, Luca; Sandri, Giulia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book evaluates and challenges recent scholarly literature on the quality of democracy. It provides a critical assessment of the current state of the studies on the subject, identifying the key questions and discussing open issues, alternative approaches, problems and future developments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351209496
• Artikelnr.: 56897925

Autorenporträt

Luca Tomini is FNRS Postdoctoral Researcher at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium. Giulia Sandri is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Université Catholique de Lille in France.

Inhaltsangabe

The Quality of Democracy: Towards a New Research Agenda [Luca Tomini and Giulia Sandri] Part I: Concepts and Methods 1. Some Critical Thoughts on Researching the Quality of Democracy [Philippe C. Schmitter] 2. Aggregating a Multi-Dimensional Concept: The Quality of Democracy [Dirk Berg-Schlosser] Part II: Causality and the Quality of Democracy 3. Accountability through Stages of Democratization: A Causal Explanation of Quality of Democracy [Luca Tomini] 4. Democratic Quality and Democratic Survival [Aníbal Pérez-Liñán and Noah Smith] 5. Economic Crisis and Democracy: How to Analyze the Impact of the Former on the Latter [Leonardo Morlino] 6. The Cornerstone of the Quality of Democracy: Electoral Accountability in EU Member States [Stefano Rombi and Fulvio Venturino] Part III: Beyond the State: Territorial Dimensions of the Quality of Democracy 7. Patterns of Regional Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Federal and Decentralised West-European Countries [Régis Dandoy and Giulia Sandri] 8. Protecting the Rule of Law and the State of Democracy at the Supranational Level: Political Dilemmas and Institutional Struggles in Strengthening EU's Input, Output, and Throughput Legitimacy [Ramona Coman]