After the democratic euphoria of the early 1990s, today the "third wave of democratization" seems to be less a triumph of political liberalism and much more a success story of a "defective" form of democracy. The authors argue that none of the strategies which can be found in contemporary democratization studies is satisfactory. They offer an alternative two-step-strategy of (1) specifying the root concept of democracy and (2) building subtypes of democracy which are based on this specified root concept. In doing so, the authors conceptualize the model of embedded democracy, from which they generate the concept of "defective democracy" and present a typology of these "defective democracies".
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:Potsdam/oai:kobv.de-opus-ubp:1162 |
Date | January 2000 |
Creators | Croissant, Aurel, Thiery, Peter |
Publisher | Universität Potsdam, Extern. Extern |
Source Sets | Potsdam University |
Language | German |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Postprint |
Format | application/pdf |
Source | WeltTrends : Zeitschrift für internationale Politik und vergleichende Studien. - 29 (2000/2001). - S. 9 – 32 |
Rights | http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/doku/urheberrecht.php |
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