The perpetual crises of democracy

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 5-11

  O'Donnell, Guillermo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

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EID: 33846870351     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jod.2007.0012     Document Type: Review

References (9)

1. Laurence Whitehead, Democratization: Theory and Experience (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).
2. W.B. Gallie, Philosophy and the Historical Understanding (London: Chatto & Windus. 1964), 157-91.
3. John Dunn, Setting the People Free: The Story of Democracy (London: Atlantic, 2005).
4. Robert A. Dahl, Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971).
5. As to my proposed addition of "decisiveness" see especially Guillermo O'Donnell, "Democracy, Law, and Comparative Politics," Studies in Comparative International Development 36 (Spring 2001): 5-36.
6. O'Donnell, "Democracy, Law. and Comparative Politics."
7. Pippa Norris, ed., Critical Citizens: Global Support for Democratic Governance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999).
8. I should add that the trust and approval figures given are aggregates lumping together those who said that they harbored "a lot" of trust or approval with those who merely expressed "some" trust or approval. Regionwide, the number of people in the "a lot" category was less than a third of the number who grouped themselves into the "some" category (see www.latinobarometro.org).
9. See Andreas Schedler. ed., Electoral Authoritarianism: The Dynamics of Unfree Competition (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 2006).