TY  - GEN
A1  - Ganghof, Steffen
T1  - Reconciling representation and accountability
BT  - three visions of democracy compared
T2  - Government and Opposition
N2  - An egalitarian approach to the fair representation of voters specifies three main institutional requirements: proportional representation, legislative majority rule and a parliamentary system of government. This approach faces two challenges: the under-determination of the resulting democratic process and the idea of a trade-off between equal voter representation and government accountability. Linking conceptual with comparative analysis, the article argues that we can distinguish three ideal-typical varieties of the egalitarian vision of democracy, based on the stages at which majorities are formed. These varieties do not put different relative normative weight onto equality and accountability, but have different conceptions of both values and their reconciliation. The view that accountability is necessarily linked to clarity of responsibility', widespread in the comparative literature, is questioned - as is the idea of a general trade-off between representation and accountability. Depending on the vision of democracy, the two values need not be in conflict.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe - 96 
KW  - visions of democracy
KW  - political equality
KW  - accountability
Y1  - 2018
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-413456
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ganghof, Steffen
T1  - Justifying types of representative democracy
BT  - a response
JF  - Critical review of international social and political philosophy
N2  - This article responds to critical reflections on my Beyond Presidentialism and Parliamentarism by Sarah Birch, Kevin J. Elliott, Claudia Landwehr and James L. Wilson. It discusses how different types of representative democracy, especially different forms of government (presidential, parliamentary or hybrid), can be justified. It clarifies, among other things, the distinction between procedural and process equality, the strengths of semi-parliamentary government, the potential instability of constitutional designs, and the difference that theories can make in actual processes of constitutional reform.
KW  - political equality
KW  - semi-parliamentarism
KW  - presidentialism
KW  - institutional design
KW  - executive personalism
Y1  - 2023
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2022.2159665
SN  - 1369-8230
SN  - 1743-8772
SP  - 1
EP  - 12
PB  - Routledge
CY  - London
ER  -