Requisites of Democracy - Conceptualization, Measurement, and Explanation

Informationen zum Autor Jørgen Møller and Svend-Erik Skaaning are both Assistant Professors at the Department of Political Science! Aarhus University! Denmark. Zusammenfassung This book examines theoretical and empirical approaches to measuring, defining and understanding democracy, and brings together the conceptual and theoretical writings of Joseph Schumpeter, Robert A. Dahl, Guillermo O’Donnell, and T. H. Marshal. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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?

Product details

• Authors: Jrgen Skaaning Mller, Jørgen Møller, Svend-Erik Skaaning, Skaaning Svend-Erik
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.06.2011
• EAN: 9780415596817
• ISBN: 978-0-415-59681-7
• No. of pages: 164
• Series: Democratization and Autocratization Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, International Relations, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political structures: democracy, Political science and theory