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,...

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 that the empirical pattern revealed by this typology is explained by the combination of internal structural constraints and international factors facilitating democracy. The result of such...