Assessing the Quality of Democracy.0801882877 Assessing the quality of democracy. Ed. by Larry Diamond Larry Diamond is a professor, lecturer, adviser, and author on foreign policy, foreign aid, and democracy. In early 2004, he was a senior adviser on governance to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. and Leonardo Morlino. Johns Hopkins Noun 1. Johns Hopkins - United States financier and philanthropist who left money to found the university and hospital that bear his name in Baltimore (1795-1873) Hopkins 2. U. Press 2005 284 pages $18.95 Paperback Journal of democracy book JC423 Collectively, the 12 papers presented here by Diamond (Hoover Institution The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace is a public policy think tank and library founded by Herbert Hoover at Stanford University, his alma mater. The Institution was founded in 1919 and over time has amassed a huge archive of documentation related to President , US) and Morlino (political science, U. of Florence, Italy), present a framework for assessing the quality of democracy. The first five papers individually explore the five key facets of "good" democracy: procedural issues of the rule of law and accountability, foundational values of freedom and equality (conceive of Verb 1. conceive of - form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case; "Can you conceive of him as the president?" envisage, ideate, imagine in relatively narrow political terms); and the results dimension they call responsiveness. These thematic issues are then revisited in case studies comparing Italy and Spain, Chile and Brazil, Bangladesh and India, South Korea and Taiwan, Poland and Romania, and Ghana and South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. . ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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