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António Costa Pinto, Pedro C. Magalhães & Luís de Sousa

"Is the good polity attainable? – measuring the quality of democracy"

European Political Science

Volume:11
2012

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Abstract

This article introduces a discussion on defining, measuring, and assessing the quality of democracy. Providing a short overview of the papers of the Symposium, it places them within a broader context of current academic debate on various methodological, theoretical, and policy outreach dimensions of the topic.

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Antonio Costa Pinto   |   acpinto@ics.ul.pt
Institute of Social Sciences   |   Av. Professor Anibal Betencourt, 9   |   1600-189 Lisbon   |   Portugal