Comparative Politics - In class lab 1

Issues when attempting to classify cases according to definitions of
democracy

Workshop on "Populism" definition and parties

Merkel's model of defective democracy

Dimensions

1 Elections
2 Political liberties
3 Civil rights
4 Horizontal accountability / division of powers
5 Effective power to govern

Sub-types:

1 Exclusive democracy, excluding part of the population from suffrage
2 Domain democracy, exclusion of elected representatives
3 Iliberal democracy, limited control by the judiciary, constitutional
binding, individual civic rights
4 Delegative democracy, limited control by the judiciary and the
legislative power, limited constitutional binding

Møller and Skaaning model

Democracy types

Descending the Ladder of Abstraction to Construct Types of Democracy