Quality of Democracy at Regional Level in the V4 Countries
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Quality of Democracy at Regional Level in the V4 Countries

Patterns and Institutions

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Quality of Democracy at Regional Level in the V4 Countries

Patterns and Institutions

About this book

This book systematically examines regional-level qualities of democracy – representation, participation, and competition – in four countries of Central and Eastern Europe between 1994 and 2022, from the establishment of regional self-government to the present day.

Focusing on their common EU accession as representing a critical juncture in their processes of consolidation and/or destabilization of liberal democratic patterns of government on both national and subnational levels, the book applies a conceptual framework on the quality of subnational democracy. It provides a clear methodological approach to observing quality and the variability in quality of democracy across various regions and its transformation through long-term comparisons. As such, the book contributes to understanding some of the processes of more than 30 years of Central and Eastern European regional politics, offering conceptual clarifications applicable to research conducted in other contexts.

This book is of key interest to scholars and students of democracy, electoral politics, Central and East European politics, local politics, representation, and more broadly, comparative politics.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. List of figures
  8. List of tables
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Abbreviations and acronyms
  11. Abbreviations – regions
  12. Abbreviations – political parties
  13. 1 Introduction: on the road to studying subnational quality of democracy
  14. 2 Regional self-government in V4 countries in a comparative perspective
  15. 3 Conceptualizing quality of democracy
  16. 4 Measuring quality of democracy at subnational level: a methodological framework
  17. 5 Regional turnout and civic sector activities in Visegrad Four regions
  18. 6 Women’s descriptive representation in Visegrad Four regional legislatures: continuing limited success
  19. 7 Increasing instability and vertical spill-over in Visegrad Four regional party systems
  20. 8 Subnational quality of democracy: evidence from the Polish, Czech, Hungarian, and Slovak regions
  21. 9 Conclusions: quality of Subnational democracy in Visegrad Four regions – main findings and further directions
  22. Index