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Title The quality of democracy : theory and applications / edited by Guillermo O'Donnell, Jorge Vargas Cullell, and Osvaldo M. Iazzetta
Published Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2004

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Description xiv, 274 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Human development, human rights, and democracy / Guillermo O'Donnell -- Democracy and the quality of democracy : empirical findings and methodological and theoretical issues drawn from the citizen audit of the quality of democracy in Costa Rica / Jorge Vargas Cullell -- In search of a new paradigm : quality of democracy and human development in Latin America / Gabriela Ippolito -- Notes on human development, human rights, and auditing the quality of democracy / Laurence Whitehead -- Latin America : virtuous or perverse cycle / Terry Lynn Karl -- Fundamental rights as a limitation to the democratic principle of majority will / Juan E. Méndez -- On the imaginary of citizenry / Norbert Lechner -- State, democracy, and social rights / María Hermínia Tavares de Almeida -- Deepening civil and social rights / Catherine M. Conaghan -- Unfinished business for Latin America's democracies / Osvaldo M. Iazzetta -- Quality of democracy or quality of politics? / Manuel Alcántara Sáez -- Quality of democracy and its measurement / Michael Coppedge -- Democratic quality : costs and benefits of the concepts / Sebastián L. Mazzuca -- Conceptual and methodological notes on the quality of democracy and its audit / Gerardo L. Munck
Notes "Recent titles from the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies"
Based on a workshop on the quality of democracy and human development in Latin America, held in Heredia, Costa Rica, Feb. 1-2, 2002
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Democracy -- Latin America -- Congresses.
Human rights -- Latin America -- Congresses.
Political participation -- Latin America -- Congresses.
SUBJECT Latin America -- Economic conditions -- 1982- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88005678 -- Congresses. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001533
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author O'Donnell, Guillermo A.
Vargas Cullel, Jorge.
Iazzetta, Osvaldo Miguel.
Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies.
LC no. 2004016399
ISBN 0268037191 cloth alkaline paper
0268037205 paperback alkaline paper