Name: The Quality of Democracy in Eastern Europe: Public Preferences and Policy Reforms
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Author: Andrew Roberts
ISBN: 9780521110334

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Andrew Roberts

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Year

2009

Language

English

Pages

252

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.1 x 16.0 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.52 kg.

ISBN

0521110335

ISBN13

9780521110334

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Quality of Democracy in Eastern Europe: Public Preferences and Policy Reforms"

How does democracy work in the new democracies of Eastern Europe? Do the people actually rule as one would expect in a democracy or do the legacies of communism and the constraints of the transition weaken popular control? This book presents a new framework for conceptualizing and measuring democratic quality and applies this framework to multiple countries and policy areas in the region. It defines democratic quality as the degree to which citizens are able to hold leaders accountable for their performance and keep policy close to their preferences. Its surprising conclusion, drawn from large-N statistical analyses and small-N case studies, is that citizens exercise considerable control over their rulers in Eastern European democracies. Despite facing difficult economic circumstances and an unfavorable inheritance from communism, these countries rapidly constructed relatively high-quality democracies.

Andrew Roberts

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Andrew Roberts, historiador y periodista, es miembro de la Royal Society of Literature y de la Royal Society of Arts. Forma parte, asimismo, del Napoleonic Institute, y es socio honorario de la International Churchill Society. Una vida (2016) ganó el Grand Prix of the Fondation Napoléon y el Los Angeles Times Biography Prize.

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