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Don't Good Democracies Need 'Good' Citizens? Citizen Dispositions and the Study of Democratic Quality
- Source :
- Politics and Governance, Why Choice Matters: Revisiting and Comparing Measures of Democracy
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- PRT, 2018.
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Abstract
- This article advances the argument that quality of democracy depends not only on the performance of democratic institutions but also on the dispositions of citizens. We make three contributions to the study of democratic quality. First, we develop a fine-grained, structured conceptualization of the three core dispositions (democratic commitments, political capacities, and political participation) that make up the citizen component of democratic quality. Second, we provide a more precise account of the notion of inter-component congruence or "fit" between the institutional and citizen components of democratic quality, distinguishing between static and dynamic forms of congruence. Third, drawing on cross-national data, we show the importance of taking levels of inter-dispositional consistency into account when measuring democratic quality.
- Subjects :
- Allgemeines, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Methoden, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Politikwissenschaft
democracy
citizens
democratic commitments
political capacity
Politikwissenschaft
internationaler Vergleich
politisches Interesse
conception of democracy
direkte Demokratie
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Political science
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Qualität
politische Partizipation
direct democracy
political interest
international comparison
political behavior
politisches Verhalten
quality
ddc:320
öffentliche Meinung
public opinion
Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Political Science
political participation
Demokratie
Demokratieverständnis
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 23813652
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- IndraStra Global
- Accession number :
- edsair.dedup.wf.001..fd2b93be51b34af3e1a66475d0bab996