Minding and not minding your own business: What justifies attempts to assess the democratic quality of political systems?

Contents I. Introduction.....5 II. Deriving Indicators.....7 III. Why Democracies need to be able to assess themselves.....11 IV. Why democracies need to be able to assess the democratic quality of other states.....13 V. Democracy assessment and the collapse fo the fact/value distinction.....15...

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Link(s) zu Dokument(en):IHS Publikation
1. Verfasser: Lord, Christopher
Format: IHS Series NonPeerReviewed
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2015
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Zusammenfassung:Contents I. Introduction.....5 II. Deriving Indicators.....7 III. Why Democracies need to be able to assess themselves.....11 IV. Why democracies need to be able to assess the democratic quality of other states.....13 V. Democracy assessment and the collapse fo the fact/value distinction.....15 VI. Two concluding suggestions.....22 VII. Annex.....24 VIII. REFERENCES 25