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Requisites of Democracy: Conceptualization, Measurement, and Explanation book cover

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Requisites of Democracy Conceptualization, Measurement, and Explanation

By Jørgen Møller, Svend-Erik Skaaning Copyright 2011
184 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

184 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

184 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Part 1: Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy  1. Defective Democracy Revisited  2. Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy I: Towards a Classical Typology  3. Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy II: Including Social Rights?  Part 2: Trends Across Space and Time  4. Post-Communist Regime Types: Hierarchy across Space  5. Marshall Revisited: The Sequence of Citizenship Rights in the Twenty-First Century  Part 3: Explaining the Hierarchy  6. Stateness First?  7. Necessary Conditions of Democracy?

Biography

Jørgen Møller and Svend-Erik Skaaning are both Assistant Professors at the Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Includes an updated version of the authors’ article "Beyond the Radial Delusion: Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy and Non-democracy," winner of the 2011 Meisel-Laponce Award.

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