Don’t Good Democracies Need “Good” Citizens? Citizen Dispositions and the Study of Democratic Quality

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Autor(a) principal: Mayne, Quinton
Data de Publicação: 2018
Outros Autores: Geißel, Brigitte
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v6i1.1216
Resumo: This article advances the argument that quality of democracy depends not only on the performance of democratic institutions but also on the dispositions of citizens. We make three contributions to the study of democratic quality. First, we develop a fine-grained, structured conceptualization of the three core dispositions (democratic commitments, political capacities, and political participation) that make up the citizen component of democratic quality. Second, we provide a more precise account of the notion of inter-component congruence or “fit” between the institutional and citizen components of democratic quality, distinguishing between static and dynamic forms of congruence. Third, drawing on cross-national data, we show the importance of taking levels of inter-dispositional consistency into account when measuring democratic quality.
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title Don’t Good Democracies Need “Good” Citizens? Citizen Dispositions and the Study of Democratic Quality
spellingShingle Don’t Good Democracies Need “Good” Citizens? Citizen Dispositions and the Study of Democratic Quality
Mayne, Quinton
citizens; democracy; democratic commitments; political capacity; political participation; quality of democracy
title_short Don’t Good Democracies Need “Good” Citizens? Citizen Dispositions and the Study of Democratic Quality
title_full Don’t Good Democracies Need “Good” Citizens? Citizen Dispositions and the Study of Democratic Quality
title_fullStr Don’t Good Democracies Need “Good” Citizens? Citizen Dispositions and the Study of Democratic Quality
title_full_unstemmed Don’t Good Democracies Need “Good” Citizens? Citizen Dispositions and the Study of Democratic Quality
title_sort Don’t Good Democracies Need “Good” Citizens? Citizen Dispositions and the Study of Democratic Quality
author Mayne, Quinton
author_facet Mayne, Quinton
Geißel, Brigitte
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author2 Geißel, Brigitte
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Geißel, Brigitte
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv citizens; democracy; democratic commitments; political capacity; political participation; quality of democracy
topic citizens; democracy; democratic commitments; political capacity; political participation; quality of democracy
description This article advances the argument that quality of democracy depends not only on the performance of democratic institutions but also on the dispositions of citizens. We make three contributions to the study of democratic quality. First, we develop a fine-grained, structured conceptualization of the three core dispositions (democratic commitments, political capacities, and political participation) that make up the citizen component of democratic quality. Second, we provide a more precise account of the notion of inter-component congruence or “fit” between the institutional and citizen components of democratic quality, distinguishing between static and dynamic forms of congruence. Third, drawing on cross-national data, we show the importance of taking levels of inter-dispositional consistency into account when measuring democratic quality.
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