A Virtuous Cycle: Tracing Democratic Quality through Equality

This dissertation asks the question: How do democracies improve in quality? Building on previous scholarship, the author offers a theoretical framework that traces democratic quality through equality of outcomes. The quality of democracy may be conceptualized as a virtuous cycle where the procedural...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ross, Ashley Dyan
Other Authors: Escobar-Lemmon, Maria C.
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-08-8337