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Democracy and its Deformations
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This chapter presents democracy not as an ‘all or nothing’ phenomenon, but rather as a spectrum which allows for varying degrees of democracy. The author has developed a systematic methodology for assessing the quality of a country’s democracy, the democratic audit. This chapter focuses on five of the most common deformations to which democracy is currently subject. These are authoritarianism; elite capture and money flight; majoritarianism and political equality; parliamentary decline; democratic hubris. The chapter seeks to explain the ways in which each of these developments distort the aims of democracy as popular control over decision-makers and equality in the exercise of that control.
Title: Democracy and its Deformations
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This chapter presents democracy not as an ‘all or nothing’ phenomenon, but rather as a spectrum which allows for varying degrees of democracy.
The author has developed a systematic methodology for assessing the quality of a country’s democracy, the democratic audit.
This chapter focuses on five of the most common deformations to which democracy is currently subject.
These are authoritarianism; elite capture and money flight; majoritarianism and political equality; parliamentary decline; democratic hubris.
The chapter seeks to explain the ways in which each of these developments distort the aims of democracy as popular control over decision-makers and equality in the exercise of that control.
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