Concept information
Preferred term
democracy and democratization
Definition
- Modern conceptions of democracy focus on what Robert Dahl calls “contestation” and “participation.” A modern democracy (which Dahl prefers to call a “polyarchy” to distinguish it from ancient or direct democracy) allows the opposition to contest incumbents for control of the state. A state is also democratic if all adults have the right to express their views and to shape the behavior of public officials. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Democracy and Democratization]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- administrative corruption
- anti-democratic thought
- capitalism and democracy
- civil service
- Classical Greek democracy
- coalitions
- constitutional engineering
- constitutionalism
- credible commitment
- decision making in democracies
- deliberative democracy
- democracy and development
- democracy: chinese perspectives
- democracy: middle east perspectives
- democracy: russian perspectives
- democratic peace
- democratic transition
- democratization
- developing world and international relations
- development administration
- digital democracy
- direct democracy
- electoral accountability
- emerging democracies
- empire and democracy
- foreign aid and development
- future of democracy
- global democratic deficit
- good governance
- industrial democracy
- institutional change
- interinstitutional accountability
- liberal democracy
- liberalization
- modernization theory
- monarchy
- nation building
- opposition
- parliamentary democracy
- participatory democracy
- peasants' movements
- pluralist interest intermediation
- political collaboration
- political competition
- political conditionality
- political development
- political representation
- polyarchy
- postmaterialism
- quality of democracy
- representative democracy
- responsibility (politics)
- responsiveness of bureaucracy
- responsiveness (politics)
- self-determination
- semipresidentialism
- state collapse
- state failure
- state formation
- third way and social democracy
- toleration
- traditional rule
- transition
- transitional justice
- types of democracy
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/democracy_and_democratization
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