Overview
- The book develops a truly global and up-to-date perspective of democracy and quality of democracy. Advanced and emerging countries are being equally covered. The book not only addresses democracies, but also semi-democracies and non-democracies. In that sense the book is (will be) unique, because there is no comparable publication out there, addressing these issues in a world-wide perspective
- In its conceptual domain, the book refers to democracy and quality-of-democracy discourses, but will also cross refer to discourses in knowledge, sustainable development and innovation
- The book roots in theory (conceptualizing) on the one hand, but is also practically based, by developing empirical models (using indicators), on the other
- The book understands itself as a product and is standing in line with academic research, and can therefore also be used for teaching. But the book also supports practicioners in strategy, decision-making and problem-solving
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Democracy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship for Growth (DIG)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- democracy development
- conceptualization of democracy
- economic development
- economic growth
- empirical measurement of democracy and quality of democracy
- equality
- freedom
- government/oppositions cycles
- global comparison
- person and party change of head of government
- political self-organization
- political left/right swings
- quality of democracy
- quadruple and quintuple helix innovation systems
- sustainable development
- democracy
About this book
This book assesses the interconnectedness of democracy and economic development. It concentrates on how to conceptualize and to measure democracy and quality of democracy in global comparison. The author makes the argument that a quality-of-democracy understanding based on sustainable development relates crucially with economic growth, but more so with economic development. The empirical macro-model focuses on approximately over hundred countries (in a world model) and covers about a fourteen-year period of 2002-2015, identifying the following basic dimensions as being relevant for further analysis: freedom, equality, control, sustainable development, and self-organization (political self-organization). Readers will appreciate the global perspective the work offers.
Reviews
“David Campbell has been carrying out research on quality of democracy and its conception and measurement now for several years. … Through this approach, the author offers a new form of understanding of how democracy should be measured in a meaningful way. … This global approach to democracy seems to be so urgently needed and necessary for our current debates on the state and status of democracy worldwide.” (Matthias Keppel, OZP - Austrian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 48 (2), 2019)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Quality of Democracy as Innovation Enabler
Book Subtitle: Measuring Democracy for Success
Authors: David F.J. Campbell
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Democracy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship for Growth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72529-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-72528-4Published: 08 November 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10221-0Published: 02 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-72529-1Published: 28 October 2018
Series ISSN: 2662-3641
Series E-ISSN: 2662-365X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: LI, 509
Number of Illustrations: 38 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour
Topics: Innovation/Technology Management, Knowledge Management, Democracy, Globalization, Development Studies, Sustainable Development