Subject: Inquiry on democratization studies
From: Leslie A Powell (lap32@columbia.edu)
Date: Sun Feb 13 2000 - 14:17:01 EST
Would anyone happen to know of any empirically based studies which
provide evidence for the claim that "Democracy is significantly more
likely to become consolidated if it is liberal", as opposed to merely
electoral? (Quote from Larry Diamond, Developing Democracy, 1999, p.
20)
I am working on a dissertation regarding post-Soviet civil society
and am looking for evidence to bolster my justification for using a
more generous definition of democracy than just the electoral one.
If there is an empirical study out there which shows that, in fact,
democracies which are electoral but not liberal are less likely to
endure, I'd like to know about it.
Many thanks in advance.
Leslie Powell
Dept. of Political Science
Columbia University
E-mail: lap32@columbia.edu
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