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Challenges of Democracy in the 21st Century Concepts, Methods, Causality and the Quality of Democracy

190 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

190 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

190 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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The effectiveness and capacity of survival of democratic regimes has been recently and widely questioned in the public and political debate. Both democratic institutions and political actors are increasingly confronted with rapid economic and societal transformations that, at least according to some observers and commentators, they not seem to be ready or equipped to manage effectively. This... Read more

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]