Assessing Democracy in a Contested Polity
Christopher Lord
Journal of Common Market Studies, 2001, vol. 39, issue 4, 641-661
Abstract:
After reviewing difficulties with the literature on the democratic deficit, this article concludes that a method is needed for assessing democracy in a political system where there is fundamental agreement on what would constitute adequately democratic institutions. It then goes on to explore two suggestions for such a method: the development of well‐specified indicators of democratic performance for contrasting ideal‐types of Euro‐democracy; and the attribution of self‐ and peer assessments to institutional actors with competing perspectives on democratic standards in the EU.
Date: 2001
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