Svend Erik Skaaning: 2 books
Democracy and Democratization in Comparative Perspective
Conceptions, Conjunctures, Causes, and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
This book provides an introduction to democratic theory and empirical research on democracy and democratization. The book first examines conceptions of democracy from the origins in ancient Greece to the present day, then tracks when and where modern democracy has developed. On this basis, the book...
Requisites of Democracy
Conceptualization, Measurement, and Explanation
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
This book brings together the conceptual and theoretical writings of Joseph Schumpeter, Robert A. Dahl, Guillermo O’Donnell, and T. H. Marshall. It demonstrates that most of the different conceptions of democracy in the democratization literature can be ordered in one systematic regime typology...