Bringing knowledge to bear on politics : the uses and misuses of data in democracy promotion -- Conceptualizing and measuring democracy : an evaluation of alternative indices / Gerardo L. Munck, Jay Verkuilen -- Drawing boundaries : the crafting of intermediate regime categories -- Producing and validating political data : the case of the electoral democracy index -- Assessing elections : a methodology for election observation missions -- Revisiting concepts : democracy and other political values -- Developing measures : beyond electoral democracy
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-174) and index