Expected stability: defining and measuring democratic consolidation

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"The paper starts with a probabilistic definition of democratic consolidation. A democratic regime is consolidated, it claims, when it has acquired a high probability of survival. The article discusses some implications and complications of this definition: its probabilistic foundations and its continuous, cognitive, and subjective nature. This descriptive concept of democratic consolidation, the text argues in continuation, helps avoiding two common methodological pitfalls: etiological definitions (that fail to distinguish between defining features and causal variables) and operational definitions (that fail to distinguish between concepts and operational indicators). The essay concludes with some reflections on the observation and measurement of democratic consolidation. [author's abstract]

Object Details

• Extent: Seite(n): 30
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Reihe Politikwissenschaft / Institut für Höhere Studien, Abt. Politikwissenschaft (50)

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Politikwissenschaft ; Allgemeines, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Methoden, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Politikwissenschaft ; Theorie ; politische Kultur ; Demokratie ; Definition ; Demokratieverständnis ; Demokratisierung ; Konsolidierung ; politische Stabilität

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Schedler, Andreas
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institut für Höhere Studien (IHS), Wien
• (where): Österreich, Wien
• (when): 1997

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-263845
• Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Last update: 21.06.2024, 4:26 PM CEST