Assessing the quality of democracy
By: edited by Larry Diamond and Leonardo Morlino.
Contributors: Diamond, Larry Jay.; Morlino, Leonardo, 1947-; American Political Science Association. Meeting
Series: Journal of democracy book
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: Democracy -- Congresses.; Comparative government -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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"--Ack.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Larry Diamond and Leonardo Morlino; title: Why the rule of law matters / Guillermo O'Donnell; title: The ambiguous virtues of accountability / Philippe C. Schmitter; title: Freedom as the foundation / David Beetham; title: Addressing inequality / Dietrich Rueschemeyer; title: The chain of responsiveness / G. Bingham Powell, Jr.; title: A skeptical afterword / Marc F. Plattner; title: Italy and Spain / Rafael López-Pintor and Leonardo Morlino; title: Chile and Brazil / Frances Hagopian; title: Bangladesh and India / Sumit Ganguly; title: South Korea and Taiwan / Yun-han Chu and Doh Chull Shin; title: Poland and Romania / Alina Mungiu-Pippidi; title: Ghana and South Africa / Robert Mattes and E. Gyimah-Boadi.