What is a 'good' democracy?

Democratization

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 10-32

  Morlino, Leonardo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b Research Centre   (Italy)

Author keywords

Accountability; Democracy; Democratic quality; Freedom and equality; Responsiveness; Rule of law

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABILITY; DEMOCRACY; POLITICAL SYSTEM;

EID: 11844249305     PISSN: 13510347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13510340412331304589     Document Type: Article

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33. Ibid., pp. 111-68.
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46. This is 'simply' part of paragraph 2, article 3 ofthe Italian constitution (see ibid., pp.150-51).
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52. Wolfgang Merkel, Hans-Jürgen Puhle et al., Defekte Demokratien (Opladen: VS Verlag, 2003).