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Quality of Democracy at Regional Level in the V4 Countries: Patterns and Institutions book cover

1st Edition

Quality of Democracy at Regional Level in the V4 Countries Patterns and Institutions

By Pavel Maškarinec Copyright 2026
274 Pages 124 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

274 Pages 124 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book systematically examines regional-level qualities of democracy – representation, participation, and competition – in four countries of Central and Eastern Europe between 1994 and 2022, from the establishment of regional self-government to the present day. Focusing on their common EU accession as representing a critical juncture in their processes of consolidation and/or destabilization... Read more

1. Introduction: On the Road to Studying Subnational Quality of Democracy

2. Regional self-government in Visegrad Four countries in a comparative perspective

3. Conceptualizing quality of democracy

4. Measuring quality of democracy at subnational level: A methodological framework

5. Regional Turnout and Civic Sector Activities in Visegrad Four Regions

6. Women’s Descriptive Representation in Visegrad Four Regional Legislatures: Continuing limited success

7. Increasing Instability and Vertical Spill-over in Visegrad Four Regional Party Systems

8. Long-term Patterns of the Subnational Democratic Quality Index (SDQI) and their Transformation: Evidence from Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Slovak Regions

9. Conclusions: Quality of Subnational Democracy in Visegrad Four Regions – Main Findings and Further Directions

Biography

Pavel Maškarinec is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic.

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