On Measuring Democracy: Its Consequences and Concomitants: Conference Papers

by Alex Inkeles

Overview

This book focuses on measuring democratic political systems as such, and is concerned more with the consequences and concomitants of political democracy in cross-national research. It examines the sequences and dynamics of political change between 1800 and 1986.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780887388811
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	05/31/1991
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	246
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Alex Inkeles (1920–2010) was professor of sociology at Stanford University, and a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace. He was the editor of On Measuring Democracy and author of Exploring Individual Modernity, Becoming Modern, and What Is Sociology?

Table of Contents

Introduction Measuring Democratic Political Systems 1. Political Democracy: Conceptual and Measurement Traps 2. The Comparative Survey of Freedom: Experiences and Suggestions 3. Measuring Polyarchy 4. The Transformation of the Western State: The Growth of Democracy, Autocracy, and State Power since 1800 5. The Political ragimes Project Measuring Consequences and Concomitants 6. The Effects of Democracy on Economic Growth and Inequality: A Review 7. On the Political Capacity of Nation States: Institutionalization and Legitimacy 8. Measures of Government Change: Indicators of Democracy from Mass Media Reporting 9. Democracies and War