Requisites of Democracy : Conceptualization, Measurement, and Explanation

ISBN-13: 9780415596817 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 184 str.

Jørgen Møller;Svend-Erik Skaaning;¬Abar

Opis

Requisites of Democracy brings together the conceptual and theoretical writings of Joseph Schumpeter, Robert A. Dahl, Guillermo O'Donnell, and T. H. Marshal. Using conceptual and methodological tools, the book demonstrates that much of what has been written about the definition of democracy can in fact be subsumed into one order. Furthermore, these accounts can have the same conceptual typology by making systematic distinction between thinner' and thicker' definitions of democracy. Examining the effect on democracy of factors such as the state, modernization, market economy and social rights, Requisites of Democracy shows through theoretical and empirical accounts that democracy is necessarily an ordered concept and system. The book will be of interest to scholars of democracy, democratization studies and political theory.

Spis treści

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?

O autorze

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