Patterns of Democracy over Space and Time.
Unidimensional measures of democracy fail to account for the complex and varied nature of political systems. This article disaggregates the concept of democracy and proposes a multidimensional conceptualization to account for this variation in institutional configurations. Three theoretically inform...
| Publicado en: | International Studies Quarterly Vol. 66; no. 3; pp. 1 - 20 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Sep2022
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