Challenges of Democracy in the 21st Century: Concepts, Methods, Causality and the Quality of Democracy

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Title Page
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Contents
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List of Contributors
The quality of democracy:
Towards a new research agenda
	Taking stock of an established literature … and moving ahead
	The aim and content of the volume
	The structure of the book
	Notes
	References
Part I:
Concepts and methods
	Chapter 1: Some critical thoughts on researching the quality of democracy
		Introduction
		The grounds for academic intrusion
			The lower left cell
			The upper right cell
		Three strategies for comparative research of quality of democracy
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 2: Aggregating a multi-dimensional concept:
The quality of democracy
		Introduction
		Calibrating and aggregating the Human Development Index
		Assessment of measures of democracy
		Calibrating and aggregating indices of democracy: the “Democracy Barometer”
		Calibrating and aggregating World Bank democracy and governance indicators
		Conclusions
		Notes
		References
Part II: Causality and the quality of democracy
	Chapter 3: Accountability through stages of democratization: A causal explanation of quality of democracy
		Introduction
		Accountability and democratization
		Accountability in Poland
		Accountability in Hungary
		The causal connections between underlying dimensions of democratization
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 4: Democratic quality and democratic survival
		Introduction
		Democratic quality and democratic survival
			Horizontal accountability
			Effective competition
			Effective participation
			Rule of Law
		Illustrative evidence from Latin America
			The dependent variable
			Estimation
			Results
		Discussion and conclusions
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 5: Economic crisis and democracy: How to analyse the impact of the former on the latter
		Introduction
		What democratic dimensions to look at and why
		Background conditions and the catalysing mechanism
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 6: The cornerstone of quality of democracy: Electoral accountability in EU member states
		Introduction
		Data and methods
		Economic crisis and governments in the EU country members
		Economic crisis and emergence of anti-party parties
		Towards a causal analysis: first steps
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Part III: Beyond the state: Territorial dimensions of the quality of democracy
	Chapter 7: Patterns of regional democracy: Government forms and performance in federal and decentralized West European countries
		Introduction
		The quality of democracy at sub-national level
		Regions in existing democracy measures
		Lijphart’s model
		Conclusion: methodological challenges and research perspectives
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 8: Protecting the rule of law and the state of democracy at the supranational level: Political dilemmas and institutional struggles in strengthening EU’s input, output and throughput legitimacy
		Introduction
		Governing through values at the supranational level
		Political dilemmas on how to safeguard common values at the supranational level
			The instrumental use of European values in the adoption of sanctions against Austria (2000)
			The weak anchors of EU’s input, output and throughput legitimacy to safeguard its common principles
			Anchoring throughput legitimacy to safeguard the rule of law at the supranational level: the EU justice scoreboard, the rule of law framework and the European Semester
		The divergent discourses of EU institutional actors
			The European Commission’s discourse – anchoring throughput legitimacy
			The European Parliament – guardian of input legitimacy and ‘défenseur’ of ideas to anchor throughput legitimacy
			The Council’s discourses – maintaining the control and sovereignty of member states intact
		Conclusions
		Notes
		References
		List of documents
			The European Commission
			The European Parliament
			The Council of the European Union
			Treaties
Index