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This book argues that four dimensions must be considered in critical assessments of democratisation: the institutional means of democracy (the ‘rules of the game’), the most important actors’ relation to these institutions, the actors’ political capacity (power) and the dynamics of democratic politics. We will return to the latter three dimensions in the following chapters and focus here on the assessment of the institutional means of democracy.
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© 2013 Olle Törnquist
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Törnquist, O. (2013). The Institutions of Democracy. In: Assessing Dynamics of Democratisation. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137381293_2
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