The Quality of Democracy in Eastern Europe: Public Preferences and Policy Reforms

by Andrew Roberts, Andrew Roberts, Andrew Lawrence Roberts

Book Overview

How does democracy work in the new democracies of Eastern Europe? Do the people actually rule as one would expect in a democracy or do the legacies of communism and the constraints of the transition weaken popular control? This book presents a framework for conceptualizing and measuring democratic quality and applies this framework to multiple countries and policy areas in the region. It defines democratic quality as the degree to which citizens are...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107417570
• ISBN13: 9781107417571
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"