Is the Good Polity Attainable? – Measuring the Quality of Democracy
Author(s) -
António Costa Pinto,
Pedro C. Magalhães,
Luís de Sousa
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
european political science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.784
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1682-0983
pISSN - 1680-4333
DOI - 10.1057/eps.2011.45
Subject(s) - polity , democracy , comparative politics , context (archaeology) , political science , quality (philosophy) , outreach , politics , public administration , political philosophy , sociology , epistemology , positive economics , social science , law , economics , philosophy , paleontology , biology
This article introduces a discussion on defining, measuring, and assessing the quality of democracy. Providing a short overview of the papers of the Symposium, it places them within a broader context of current academic debate on various methodological, theoretical, and policy outreach dimensions of the topic.
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