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

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 present day.

List of contents

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

About the author

Pavel Maškarinec is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, Jan Evangelista Purkyn¿ University in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic.

Product details

• Authors: Pavel (University of Jan Evangelista i Maskarinec, Pavel Maškarinec
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 03.10.2025
• EAN: 9781032970493
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3297049-3
• No. of pages: 310
• Series: Democratization and Autocratization Studies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Eastern Europe, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Political leaders & leadership, Political structures: democracy, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Elections & referenda, Political leaders and leadership, Regional, state and other local government, Regional government, Elections and referenda / suffrage