Democratizing the measurement of democratic quality: public attitude data and the evaluation of African political regimes

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dc.contributor.authorLogan, Carolyn
dc.contributor.authorMattes, Robert
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-26T14:04:40Z
dc.date.available2016-04-26T14:04:40Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.date.updated2016-04-26T14:03:40Z
dc.description.abstractThe emerging literature on the "quality of democracy" promises to advance our knowledge of democratization in several ways. First of all, it takes us beyond the narrow assessment of stability and endurance of democratic political regimes to ask about the quality of democracy those regimes supply. We move from asking "how stable?" to "how well?" Second, the concept of quality promises to provide us with greater nuance and precision, and thus greater ability to distinguish amongst widely disparate countries -- such as Cape Verde and Ghana on one hand, and Canada and Greece on the other -- that are usually lumped together as free, or as liberal democracies by the relatively blunt measures provided by Freedom House or Polity. Finally, and related to this, it enables us to move beyond "whole system" (Diamond 2002) measures and brings into focus differing dimensions of democracy, allowing us to appreciate that some countries can do better on some dimensions but worse on others. This also opens up the possibility that we may be able to measure democratic qualities in countries that do not qualify as electoral or liberal democracies (Elkins 2000).en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationLogan, C., & Mattes, R. (2010). <i>Democratizing the measurement of democratic quality: public attitude data and the evaluation of African political regimes</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19242en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationLogan, Carolyn, and Robert Mattes <i>Democratizing the measurement of democratic quality: public attitude data and the evaluation of African political regimes.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19242en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationLogan, C., & Mattes, R. (2010). Democratizing the measurement of democratic quality: public attitude data and the evaluation of African political regimes. Centre for Social Science Research: University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Working Paper AU - Logan, Carolyn AU - Mattes, Robert AB - The emerging literature on the "quality of democracy" promises to advance our knowledge of democratization in several ways. First of all, it takes us beyond the narrow assessment of stability and endurance of democratic political regimes to ask about the quality of democracy those regimes supply. We move from asking "how stable?" to "how well?" Second, the concept of quality promises to provide us with greater nuance and precision, and thus greater ability to distinguish amongst widely disparate countries -- such as Cape Verde and Ghana on one hand, and Canada and Greece on the other -- that are usually lumped together as free, or as liberal democracies by the relatively blunt measures provided by Freedom House or Polity. Finally, and related to this, it enables us to move beyond "whole system" (Diamond 2002) measures and brings into focus differing dimensions of democracy, allowing us to appreciate that some countries can do better on some dimensions but worse on others. This also opens up the possibility that we may be able to measure democratic qualities in countries that do not qualify as electoral or liberal democracies (Elkins 2000). DA - 2010 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2010 T1 - Democratizing the measurement of democratic quality: public attitude data and the evaluation of African political regimes TI - Democratizing the measurement of democratic quality: public attitude data and the evaluation of African political regimes UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19242 ER - en_ZA
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dc.identifier.vancouvercitationLogan C, Mattes R. Democratizing the measurement of democratic quality: public attitude data and the evaluation of African political regimes. 2010 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19242en_ZA
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dc.publisher.departmentCentre for Social Science Research(CSSR)en_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
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