Measuring quality of subnational democracy: democratic competition and participation in Czech and Polish regions, 1998-2020

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F44555601%3A13410%2F23%3A43897206" target="_blank" >RIV/44555601:13410/23:43897206 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.jofcp.org/download/click.php?id=34" target="_blank" >http://www.jofcp.org/download/click.php?id=34</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Measuring quality of subnational democracy: democratic competition and participation in Czech and Polish regions, 1998-2020

Original language description

The present article aims to contribute to a better understanding of quality of subnational (regional) democracy in post-communist Czech Republic and Poland. Following Dahlvs procedural definition of democracy, we focus on two theoretical constitutive dimensions of democracy &quot; participation and competition &quot;, and understand high-quality democracy as a type defined by a combination of high levels of both participation and competition. By analyzing all six regional elections since the establishment of self-governing regions in both the Czech Republic and Poland, we found that neither Czech nor Polish regions can be consistently classified between the four categories of quality of democracy defined, namely high-quality democracy, uncompetitive participatory democracy, competitive nonparticipatory democracy, and limited democracy. The substantial inter-electoral oscillation of quality of democracy types at the level of both countries as well as individual regions is primarily caused by a highly limited interelectoral stability of competitiveness, as opposed to highly stable participation levels.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA20-04551S" target="_blank" >GA20-04551S: Patterns of Quality of Democracy at Regional Level in the V4 Countries: Looking Inside the Black Box</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Comparative Politics

ISSN

1338-1385

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

43-63

UT code for WoS article

000905354200003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85147030332