10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POLYARCHIES»
Discover the use of
polyarchies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
polyarchies and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Paths to Democracy: Revolution and Totalitarianism
He perceives democratization as consisting of first the move from hegemonic
regimes and competitive oligarchies to near- polyarchies, then from near-
polyarchies to full polyarchies, full polyarchies then moving further towards the
ideal of ...
Rosemary H. T. O'Kane, 2004
2
Debates on Democratization
One way or the other, polyarchies that are seen as unconsolidated,
noninstitutionalized, or poorly institutionalized are defined negatively, for what
they lack: the type and degree of institutionalization presumably achieved by old
polyarchies.
Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, Philip J. Costopoulos, 2010
3
Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies
Bolivia, Brazil, and Ecuador; and S) "antisystem" political parties are as absent
from the Latin American as from the Southern European polyarchies. The
indicators of democratic consolidation invoked by these authors (and shared by
many ...
4
The Global Divergence of Democracies
The main argument is that, contrary to what most of current scholarship holds, the
problem with many new polyarchies is not that they lack institutionalization.
Rather, the way in which political scientists usually conceptualize some
institutions ...
Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, 2001
5
Comparing Apples and Mangoes: The Overpoliticized State in ...
On the basis of this ex- perience and its attendant institutional preferences and
guarantees, Dahl builds a nomenclature of polyarchies around the world.
Procedural rules that uphold the notions of preferences, guarantees, participation
, and ...
6
The Self-restraining State: Power and Accountability in New ...
Many countries, in Latin America and elsewhere, have recently become political
democracies, or polyarchies. By this I mean that they satisfy the conditions
stipulated by Robert Dahl for defining this regime type.2 Satisfying these
conditions is ...
Andreas Schedler, Larry Jay Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, 1999
7
Maestri of Political Science
Moreover, within the polyarchies themselves it is possible to distinguish between
egalitarian polyarchies (in which all eight conditions reach scores of 0.75 or more
, thus coming close to the upper limit) and non-egalitarian polyarchies, which ...
Donatella Campus, Gianfranco Pasquino, Martin Bull, 2011
8
A Preface to Democratic Theory, Expanded Edition
arbitrary but not meaningless classes of which the upper chunk might be called “
polyarchies.”l° It is perfectly evident, however, that what has just been described
is no more than a program, for nothing like it has, I think, ever been attempted.
9
Issues and Methods in Comparative Politics: An Introduction
Using per capita GNP as a measure of economic development, his comparison of
118 countries and 33 polyarchies and nearpolyarchies reveals a weak threshold
effect (see Briefing box 6.1). In other words, countries that achieve a certain ...
10
The Political Entrepreneur: The Utility of Small
Polyarchies
The paper consists of two major sections: (1) A theoretical discussion of the political entrepreneur and the potentially different behavior of leadership in polyarchies or non-polyarchies; and (2) an empirical section which attempts to test ...
R. Joseph Monsen, Bruce M. Russett, YALE UNIV NEW HAVEN CONN DEPT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE., 1973
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POLYARCHIES»
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polyarchies is used in the context of the following news items.
Professor Robert Dahl - obituary
... freedom of expression, of the press and of association, polyarchies do not lead to the ideal of “majority rule” demanded by democratic theory. «Telegraph.co.uk, May 14»
No Middle Road on Venezuela
Liberal democracies, even “polyarchies”, are not on the U.S. & Global ruling-class agenda. In the popular imagination, the post-World War Two ... «CounterPunch, Mar 14»
Robert Dahl as mentor
10, no. 4); and articles published in the 1980's on the theme of procedural democracy and the limits of contemporary “polyarchies.” When Dahl ... «Washington Post, Feb 14»
The Third Wave: Inside the Numbers
... Verde qualifies, though there are a number of polyarchies. Rather, it has been the minimalist democracies (countries such as Liberia, Malawi, ... «ISN, Dec 13»
Is Europe Losing Ukraine?
They occasionally even happen in consolidated polyarchies, like the Federal Republic of Germany which has also a proportional electoral ... «Foreign Policy Journal, Apr 10»
