The Basic Concept for the Democracy Ranking of the Quality of Democracy
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........................................................................................................ 3 1. What is democracy? Short review of conceptual definitions.................... 4 2. The empirical spreading of democracy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: The need for distinguishing between different qualities of democracy ..................................................................................................... 7 3. Initiatives for an empirical measurement of democracies in global context: Freedom House, Polity IV, Vanhanen’s Index of Democracy, and Democracy Index ........................................................................................ 10 4. Minimum or maximum definitions of democracy? Short review of concepts of the quality of democracy ......................................................... 18 5. The basic concept for the Democracy Ranking of the Quality of Democracy .................................................................................................. 30 References ................................................................................................... 42
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