Assessing the quality of democracy
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Assessing the quality of democracy
(A journal of democracy book)
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005
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"This book began with a conference at Stanford University in October of 2003, and many of the papers were subsequently presented at two different panels at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association."--Acknowledgments
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The latest volume in this popular series focuses on the best ways to evaluate and improve the quality of new democratic regimes. The essays in part one elaborate and refine several themes of democratic quality: the rule of law, accountability, freedom, equality, and responsiveness. The second part features six comparative cases, each of which applies these thematic elements to two neighboring countries: Brazil and Chile, South Africa and Ghana, Italy and Spain, Romania and Poland, India and Bangladesh, and Taiwan and Korea. Contributors: David Beetham, University of Leeds; Yun-han Chu, National Taiwan University; Larry Diamond, Hoover Institution; Sumit Ganguly, University of Texas-Austin; E. Gyimah-Boadi, Center for Democratic Development, Ghana; Frances Hagopian, University of Notre Dame; Robert Mattes, University of Cape Town; Leonardo Morlino, University of Florence; Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Romanian Academic Society; Guillermo O'Donnell, University of Notre Dame; Marc F. Plattner, International Forum for Democratic Studies; G. Bingham Powell, Jr., University of Rochester; Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Brown University; Philippe C.
Schmitter, European University Institute, Florence; Doh Chull Shin, University of Missouri at Columbia.
Table of Contents
Acknowldgments
Introduction
I. Dimensions of Democratic Quality
1. Why the Rule of Law Matters
2. The Ambiguous Virtues of Accountability
3. Freedom as the Foundation
4. Addressing Inequality
5. The Chain of Responsiveness
6. A Skeptical Perspective
II. Comparative Case Studies
7. Italy and Spain
8. Chile and Brazil
9. Bangladesh and India
10. South korea and Taiwan
11. Poland and Romania
12. Ghana and South Africa
Index
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