Democratic Audit: Towards a Broader View of Democratic Achievement

Parliamentary Affairs

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 334-347+i

  Beetham, David ^a   Byrne, Iain ^c   Ngan, Pauline ^c   Weir, Stuart ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

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EID: 10744228155     PISSN: 00312290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/parlij/gsg023     Document Type: Review

References (10)

1. UN Development Programme, Human Development Report: Deepening Democracy in a Fragmented World, OUP, 2002, pp. 37-41.
2. D. Beetham, I. Byrne, P. Ngan and S. Weir, Democracy under Blair: A Democratic Audit of the UK, Politico's, 2002.
3. Two previous Democratic Audit studies, Klug et al., The Three Pillars of Liberty, Routledge, 1996 and S. Weir and D. Beetham, Political Power and Democratic Control, Routledge, 1999, on political freedom and democratic practice respectively, provided the benchmark for this comparative exercise.
4. Two previous Democratic Audit studies, Klug et al., The Three Pillars of Liberty, Routledge, 1996 and S. Weir and D. Beetham, Political Power and Democratic Control, Routledge, 1999, on political freedom and democratic practice respectively, provided the benchmark for this comparative exercise.
5. See D. Beetham, S. Bracking, I. Kearton and S. Weir, International IDEA Handbook on Democracy Assessment, Kluwer Law International, 2001.
6. See e.g. Procedure Committee, First Report, HC 588, 1977-78, which warned that the imbalance of power between the executive and Parliament was 'inimical to the proper working of our parliamentary democracy'.
7. J. Glover (ed.), The Guardian Companion to the 2001 General Election, Atlantic Books, 2001.
8. M. Cain and M. Taylor, Keeping it Clean: The Way Forward for State Funding of Political Parties, IPPR, 2002.
9. See Beetham et al, 2002. This section draws heavily on Lovenduski's inaugural lecture at Birkbeck College, University of London.
10. P. Dunleavy, H. Margetts, T. Smith and S. Weir, Voices of the People: Popular Attitudes to Democratic Renewal in Britain, Politico's, 2001.