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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Gerardo L. Munck (Associate Professsor, University of Southern California)Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.272kg ISBN: 9780801890932ISBN 10: 0801890934 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 10 June 2009 Recommended Age: From 13 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Preface 1. Bringing Knowledge to Bear on Politics: The Uses and Misuses of Data in Democracy Promotion 2. Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy: An Evaluation of Alternative Indices 3. Drawing Boundaries: The Crafting of Intermediate Regime Categories 4. Producing and Validating Political Data: The Case of the Electoral Democracy Index 5. Assessing Elections: A Methodology for Election Observation Missions 6. Revisiting Concepts: Democracy and Other Political Values 7. Developing Measures: Beyond Electoral Democracy Notes References IndexReviewsMunck's book is a laudable effort to build bridges between the world of democratic theory and related methodologies and the practical world of politics and government. - Dante Caputo, former foreign minister of Argentina and Secretary for Political Affairs of the Organization of American States Gerardo Munck has thought long and hard about the measurement of democracy. With this brilliant book, he delivers the fruits of that careful thinking in a way that will stimulate methodologists, improve the results of scholarly analyses of democracy, and provide concrete tools for election observers in the field. This book goes further than any other that I know toward bringing conceptual and measurement validity into the study of democracy. - James Mahoney, author of The Legacies of Liberalism Author InformationGerardo L. Munck is a professor in the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California. He consults regularly on democracy evaluation for international and nongovernmental organizations, including the United Nations and the Organization of American States. Munck is the coauthor of Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics, also published by Johns Hopkins. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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