Regression of Democracy?

1. Introduction
Gero Erdmann, Marianne Kneuer

2. Decline of Democracy: Loss of Quality, Hybridisation and Breakdown of Democracy
Gero Erdmann

3. Quality Criteria for Democracy. Why Responsiveness is not the Key
Hans-Joachim Lauth

4. Is the international environment becoming less benign for democratisation?
Peter Burnell

5. The United States of America – a Deficient Democracy
Josef Braml, Hans-Joachim Lauth

6. Deficits in Democratic Quality? The Effects of Party-System Institutionalisation on the Quality of Democracy in Central Eastern Europe
Marianne Kneuer

7. Do Party Systems Make Democracy Work? A Comparative Test of Party-system Characteristics and Democratization in Francophone Africa
Matthias Basedau, Alexander Stroh

8. Elections, Democratic Regression and Transitions to Autocracy: Lessons from Russia and Venezuela
Rolf Frankenberger, Patricia Graf

9. Wilted Roses and Tulips: The Regression of Democratic Rule in Kyrgyzstan and Georgia
Christoph H. Stefes, Jennifer Sehring

10. Democratic Survival or Autocratic Revival in Interwar Europe A Comparative Examination of Structural Explanations
Svend-Erik Skaaning

Nyckelord: Social Sciences, Political Science