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Patterns of accountability and representation
- Arend Lijphart uses an average of five standardized variables – the executive-parties dimension (EPD) – to describe patterns of democracy and explain differences in democracies’ performance. The article suggests ways to improve the descriptive part of the project. It argues that the EPD maps different approaches to achieving accountability and representation, rather than differences in consensus. This re-conceptualization leads to a more coherent and valid measurement. It is also argued that more systematic adjustments are needed for differences in constitutional structures (presidentialism and bicameralism). The article presents data on a revised EPD and its components for 36 democracies in the period from 1981 to 2010. As to the explanatory part of the project, we contend that the EPD often hinders adequate causal analysis rather than facilitating it. We show this by re-analysing democracies’ performance with respect to turnout and capital punishment.
Verfasserangaben: | Steffen GanghofORCiDGND, Sebastian EppnerORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0263395717710566 |
ISSN: | 0263-3957 |
ISSN: | 1467-9256 |
Titel des übergeordneten Werks (Englisch): | Politics |
Untertitel (Englisch): | Why the executive-parties dimension cannot explain democratic performance |
Verlag: | Sage Publ. |
Verlagsort: | London |
Publikationstyp: | Wissenschaftlicher Artikel |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Datum der Erstveröffentlichung: | 20.06.2017 |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2017 |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 16.04.2021 |
Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | bicameralism; consensus democracy; death penalty; democratic performance; effective district magnitude; executive-parties dimension; turnout |
Band: | 39 |
Ausgabe: | 1 |
Seitenanzahl: | 18 |
Erste Seite: | 113 |
Letzte Seite: | 130 |
Fördernde Institution: | German Research Foundation (DFG)German Research Foundation (DFG) [GA 1696/2-1] |
Organisationseinheiten: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Sozialwissenschaften / Fachgruppe Politik- & Verwaltungswissenschaft |
DDC-Klassifikation: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 32 Politikwissenschaft / 320 Politikwissenschaft |
Publikationsweg: | Open Access / Hybrid Open-Access |
Lizenz (Deutsch): | CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |