[PDF] Measuring Democracy eBook

Author : Gerardo L. Munck
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 12,1 MB
Release : 2009-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0801890934

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Drawing on years of academic research on democracy and measurement and practical experience evaluating democratic practices for the United Nations and the Organization of American States, the author presents constructive assessment of the methods used to measure democracies that promises to bring order to the debate in academia and in practice. He makes the case for reassessing how democracy is measured and encourages fundamental changes in methodology. He has developed two instruments for quantifying and qualifying democracy: the UN Development Programme's Electoral Democracy Index and a case-by-case election monitoring tool used by the OAS.

Author : Michael Coppedge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 17,50 MB
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521537274

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Democratization and Research Methods summarizes what researchers know about why countries become and remain democracies, and why they often do not. It also evaluates the various methods social scientists use to answer such questions. Michael Coppedge draws lessons that can be applied to any political phenomenon that is studied comparatively.

Author : David Beetham
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 11,1 MB
Release : 1994-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781446226186

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The rapid worldwide phase of democratization since the 1980s has stimulated a renewed interest in how we define and measure democracy. The contributors to this volume include leading political theorists, political scientists and experts in comparative government from across Europe. Defining and Measuring Democracy offers an integrated analysis of key debates and issues ranging from the question of how to define democracy to the issue of cultural diversity. Each chapter offers new insights and approaches placed in the context of contemporary debates.

Author : Alex Inkeles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 18,75 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1351502069

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This book focuses on measuring democratic political systems as such, and is concerned more with the consequences and concomitants of political democracy in cross-national research. It examines the sequences and dynamics of political change between 1800 and 1986.

Author : Herman Kahn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 31,87 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1351502050

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First Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

Author : Michael Coppedge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,21 MB
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108440967

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Varieties of Democracy is the essential user's guide to The Varieties of Democracy project (V-Dem), one of the most ambitious data collection efforts in comparative politics. This global research collaboration sparked a dramatic change in how we study the nature, causes, and consequences of democracy. This book is ambitious in scope: more than a reference guide, it raises standards for causal inferences in democratization research and introduces new, measurable, concepts of democracy and many political institutions. Varieties of Democracy enables anyone interested in democracy - teachers, students, journalists, activists, researchers and others - to analyze V-Dem data in new and exciting ways. This book creates opportunities for V-Dem data to be used in education, research, news analysis, advocacy, policy work, and elsewhere. V-Dem is rapidly becoming the preferred source for democracy data.

Author : Jørgen Møller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 39,53 MB
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1136665838

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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 contending forces is that most of the democratizations in recent decades have only produced competitive elections, rather than ‘more demanding’ attributes of democracy such as political liberties, the rule of law, and social rights. Examining theoretical and empirical approaches to measuring, defining and understanding democracy, the book will be of interest to scholars of political theory and comparative politics in general and democratization studies in particular.

Author : DAVID F J. CAMPBELL
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 23,96 MB
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 9783030102210

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This book assesses the interconnectedness of democracy and economic development. It concentrates on how to conceptualize and to measure democracy and quality of democracy in global comparison. The author makes the argument that a quality-of-democracy understanding based on sustainable development relates crucially with economic growth, but more so with economic development. The empirical macro-model focuses on approximately over hundred countries (in a world model) and covers about a fourteen-year period of 2002-2015, identifying the following basic dimensions as being relevant for further analysis: freedom, equality, control, sustainable development, and self-organization (political self-organization). Readers will appreciate the global perspective the work offers.

Author : David F.J. Campbell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 31,65 MB
Release : 2018-10-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3319725297

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This book assesses the interconnectedness of democracy and economic development. It concentrates on how to conceptualize and to measure democracy and quality of democracy in global comparison. The author makes the argument that a quality-of-democracy understanding based on sustainable development relates crucially with economic growth, but more so with economic development. The empirical macro-model focuses on approximately over hundred countries (in a world model) and covers about a fourteen-year period of 2002-2015, identifying the following basic dimensions as being relevant for further analysis: freedom, equality, control, sustainable development, and self-organization (political self-organization). Readers will appreciate the global perspective the work offers.