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Democratic Quality and Legitimacy in the TRU Countries

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The TRI (now TRU) projects followed the development of democratization in seven countries across major world regions for close to a quarter of a century. As was explained in the Preface, five younger democracies identified as democratic forerunners in their respective regions were originally selected for the analysis.

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  1. Philipps-University, Marburg, Germany

    Dirk Berg-Schlosser

  2. Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany

    Ursula Hoffmann-Lange

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Table 3.7 Democratic quality , legitimacy and political demands in the TRU countriesa
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Berg-Schlosser, D., Hoffmann-Lange, U. (2019). Democratic Quality and Legitimacy in the TRU Countries. In: van Beek, U. (eds) Democracy under Threat. Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89453-9_3

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