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The Quality of Democracy: An Overview
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Abstract: As democracy has spread to a majority of the world’s states over the past three decades, many scholars, politicians, activists, and aid administrators have gone from asking why transitions happen to asking what the new regimes are like. This new approach focuses on what makes a democracy “good” or “better,” and on how improvements can not only be measured, but encouraged. While there is no absolutely objective way of laying out a single framework for gauging democratic quality, there are eight dimensions on which democracies vary in quality: freedom, the rule of law, vertical accountability, responsiveness, equality, participation, competition, and horizontal accountability. These dimensions are closely linked and tend to move together, either toward democratic improvement and deepening or toward decay.
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This overview proposes a multidimensional way to judge how democratic a democracy is, centered on eight qualities and their interdependence. It argues that democratic quality is plural and value-laden, with dimensions reinforcing one another but also producing trade-offs.
Key findings
- The authors define a minimal democracy as requiring universal adult suffrage, recurring free and fair competitive elections, more than one serious political party, and alternative sources of information; beyond that, they assess freedom, popular sovereignty, political equality, and broader good-governance standards.
- They identify eight dimensions of democratic quality: rule of law, participation, competition, vertical accountability, horizontal accountability, freedom, equality, and responsiveness. The first five are treated as mainly procedural or content-relevant, freedom and equality as substantive, and responsiveness as bridging procedure and substance.
- The dimensions are described as densely linked and mutually reinforcing, so improvement in one area can benefit others, but the authors also stress trade-offs and tensions, meaning no democracy can maximize every dimension simultaneously.
- The paper discusses conditions that support each dimension and common ways they are subverted, such as weak rule of law undermining participation, freedom, competition, accountability, and responsiveness; unequal resources limiting political equality; and globalization, limited public resources, and leadership autonomy constraining responsiveness.
Methods
- This is a conceptual and theoretical overview from a collaborative project launched at a Stanford University conference held 10–11 October 2003; the authors present a framework of eight dimensions and ask contributors to discuss dimensions, indicators, real-world subversion, and policy recommendations.
- No original empirical dataset or statistical analysis is reported; the article synthesizes prior scholarship and proposes dimensions and possible indicators for comparative assessment and tracking trends over time.
- The analysis is framework-building: it defines each dimension, identifies supporting conditions, describes how it is commonly undermined, and explains linkages and trade-offs among dimensions.
Limitations
- The authors state that there is no absolutely objective way to derive a single framework for democratic quality, that quality is pluralistic, and that societies make value-laden choices about which dimensions to prioritize.
- They note that responsiveness is especially complex and difficult to assess, because citizens may not know their interests, leaders may manipulate preferences, resources may be limited, and globalization constrains popular sovereignty.
- Evident from the text: the article is an overview and conceptual synthesis rather than an empirical test; it proposes indicators but does not validate them with data, and the paired country comparisons are mentioned as forthcoming rather than analyzed here.
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“No amount of money and training (including generous external assistance) will suffice unless democratic leaders show both political will and appropriate self-restraint.”
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“A government highly responsive to majority wishes, for instance, may be tempted to brush aside minority concerns or even deprive minorities of equal rights.”
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“In the real world, however, responsiveness is more complex and difficult to assess.”
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“In particular, unified and strong trade unions have played an important role in winning the extension of many economic and social rights.10”
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- Not matchedcites [10] 10. Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Evelyne H. Stephens, and John D. Stephens, Capi- talist Development and Democracy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992).
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“And if voters cannot effectively hold their rulers accountable at the polls-and put in office an opposition whose policy promises they prefer-then a crucial link will have broken in the chain of responsiveness that Powell defines.”
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“Where we find democracies very weak on some dimensions, such as freedom and the rule of law, they tend to be noticeably deficient on others as well.”
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“Even if everyone's formal rights of participation are upheld, inequalities in political resources can make it harder for lower-status individuals to exercise those rights.”
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“Unless there is fair and unimpeded access to the electoral arena, vertical accountability may be greatly diminished.”
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“the single most important institutional guarantee of freedom and fairness (and hence competitiveness) in elections is an independent and authoritative electoral commission.7”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [7] 7. Robert Pastor, "A Brief History of Electoral Commissions," in Andreas Schedler, Larry Diamond, and Marc F. Plattner, eds., The Self-Restraining State: Power and Accountability in New Democracies (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 1999), 75-82. source
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“A government may score generally well on our eight dimensions of quality-including responsiveness-yet still not entirely satisfy most citizens.”
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“Neither can a rule of law be sustained and the abuse of power preempted and contained without strong institutions of horizontal accountability, which also ensure that the electoral instruments of competition and vertical accountability will not be abused.”
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“Andreas Schedler suggests that accountability has three main features: information, justification, and punishment (or compensation).8”
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- Not matchedcites [8] 8. Andreas Schedler, "Conceptualizing Accountability," in Andreas Schedler, Larry Diamond, and Marc F. Plattner, eds., The Self-Restraining State.
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“Second, public resources may be too limited.Governing responsibly-as opposed to purely responsively-involves setting priorities and making difficult choices.Even the most committed and well-meaning democratic leaders will not be able to please everyone.”
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“At the same time, participatory citizens, voting at the polls and acting in various organized ways in civil society, are the last line of defense against potential executive efforts to subvert rule-of-law and good-governance institutions.”
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“we think the long historical evolution of democracy suggests that if citizens mobilize effectively, these aspirations for a higher quality of democracy can gradually, if still imperfectly, be achieved.”
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“But as we emphasize, these different dimensions densely interact and reinforce one another, ultimately converging into a system.”
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“While democracy does not demand a certain set of substantive social or economic policies, it does in practice presuppose a degree of political equality that is virtually impossible if wealth and status inequalities become too extreme.”
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“The vitality of horizontal accountability hinges most of all on a legal system that provides for the exertion of checks and balances by other public entities that are independent of the government, and not competing as an alternative to it.”
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“And as Powell explains, when campaign issues fall on multiple dimensions, it can be difficult for a victorious party to infer a clear policy mandate.”
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“Of course, electoral competitiveness also depends on fairness in access to the mass media, pluralism in media ownership (and viewpoints), some dispersion of economic resources in society, and the enforcement of political rights by an independent judiciary.”
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“If elections are to be truly meaningful, free, and fair, there must be some degree of civil and political freedom beyond the electoral arena so that citizens can articulate and organize around their political beliefs and interests.”
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“the main prerequisites for the furtherance of social rights are sufficient affluence to fund social policies and wise strategies to achieve egalitarian policy goals without destroying the freedom and efficiency that make prosperity possible in the first place.”
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“The conditions favoring responsiveness are similar to those that support vertical accountability-that is, a robust civil society, a functional party system, and the like.”
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“This requires not only the prevention of electoral fraud, and of violence and intimidation against voters, candidates, and parties, but also-as David Beetham argues-the prevention of more subtle denigrations of electoral rights, including rights to (some measure of) equality in access to political finance and to the mass media.”
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“These rights make possible vigorous political participation and competition, and hence vertical accountability.”
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“Political competition and participation are crucial conditions for vertical accountability.”
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“Leaders seek to maximize their autonomy and to shape citizens' perceptions of interest in ways that are sometimes highly manipulative or even demagogic.”
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“we still think that at least part of the present disenchantment with democracy does concern procedures and institutions, and stems not only from more information about the failings of government, but also from higher citizen expectations of what democracy can deliver procedurally and substantively, as well as in terms of results.”
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“The most important conditions aiding the development of law-based rule are the diffusion of liberal and democratic values at both popular and elite levels; strong bureaucratic traditions of competence and impartiality; and adequate institutional and economic means.”
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“Assuring political and civil rights requires many of the institutional conditions of fairness and horizontal accountability discussed above with respect to participation, competition, and vertical accountability.First and foremost among these institutions is an independent, capable, and constitutionally authoritative judiciary, along with a broader legal system (and culture) that ensures a rule of”
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“This in turn necessitates the control of corruption, and hence strong institutions of horizontal accountability.”
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“Policy makers sometimes must weigh trade-offs between short-term preferences and long-term citizen interests.”
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“Civil and political rights are thus critical to the vigorous participation and competition of parties, interests, and organizations that make for vertical accountability and responsiveness.”
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“the various dimensions are closely linked and tend to move together, either toward democratic improvement and deepening or toward decay.”
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“But none of this is possible without a rule of law, wherein an impartial judiciary affirms rights and penalizes and prohibits violations of the institutional safeguards for vertical and horizontal accountability.”
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“Efficiency requires that the available resources go as much as possible toward investments in physical infrastructure and especially human capital (public health and education) that will raise the productivity of the poor over time.”
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“Strong horizontal accountability will obviously be helpful.”
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“There is no objective, a priori way to determine which system produces a higher quality of democracy”
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“if this system is to work it must have institutional capacity, training, and leadership that are at once capable, vigorous, and responsible.”
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“Good democracies balance and integrate these three distinct traditions.Yet they do so with distinctive mixes and institutional designs, reminding us that democratic quality is a flexible and pluralistic concept, shaped by the normative choices of society.”
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“The ongoing process of monitoring, questioning, and demanding justification through the work of civil society (the media, interest groups, think tanks, and so on) requires freedom for these groups to function and a rule of law that protects them from intimidation and retribution.”
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“If, because of the accumulated unfair advantages that the ruling party enjoys, voters are not able to convert their dissatisfaction with the incumbents into electoral support for the opposition; or if any party (ruling or not) overwhelms its opponents and drowns out their messages with vastly superior funding and media access, the electoral dimension of vertical accountability may be vitiated.”
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“Like the law itself, the agencies of horizontal accountability can be used as a weapon against political opponents, but only at the possible cost of undermining the credibility enjoyed by the entire institutional network.”
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“Democracy is about competition and choice, and losers are bound to be dissatisfied, at least temporarily.”
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“vertical accountability requires political competition and power distributions that are fair enough to allow for genuine electoral alternatives at the various levels of government, and that can produce turnover or at least a serious prospect thereof.”
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“Powell sees three links in the chain of democratic responsiveness.First, choices are structured in a way that distills citizens' diverse, multidimensional policy preferences into more coherent national policy choices offered by competing political parties.Second, citizens' electoral preferences are aggregated (by varying means from one country to another) into a government of policy makers.And”
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“Responsiveness is akin to vertical accountability (and hence to participation and competition), and in turn influences the degree to which citizens will be satisfied with the performance of democracy and view it as legitimate.”
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“we live in an era when news and information reach citizens with unprecedented speed and competition for attention, generating a tendency toward sensationalism and negative exposure in the mass media.This makes the failings of democracy appear more scandalous, more often, than they would have in a previous era.”
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“With so many different interests in society, capable of aggregating in so many different ways, it is impossible for government to be responsive to all interests and concerns.”
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“citizens do not always know what policies will produce even the sorts of outcomes that all tend to agree on, such as economic prosperity and stability with something close to full employment.”
§ The Quality of Democracy: An Overview > The System of Democratic Qualities
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Deepening democracy is a moral good, perhaps even an imperative.
“This stream of theory, methodological innovation, and empirical research flows from the notions that: 1) deepening democracy is a moral good, maybe even an imperative;”
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Reforms to improve democratic quality are essential for democracy to achieve the broad and durable legitimacy that marks consolidation.
“2) reforms to improve democratic quality are essential if democracy is to achieve the broad and durable legitimacy that marks consolidation;”
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Long-established democracies must also reform if they are to solve their gathering problems of public dissatisfaction and disillusionment.
“3) longestablished democracies must also reform if they are to solve their own gathering problems of public dissatisfaction and even disillusionment.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Diamond, L., & Morlino, L.
- Venue
- Journal of Democracy
- Publisher
- Project MUSE
- Published
- 2004-10
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 20-31
- ISSN
- 1045-5736 (ISSN-L)
- 1086-3214
- OpenAlex
- W2892272454
- Cited by
- 578
- References
- 6
- Citations by year
- 2026: 23 · 2025: 23 · 2024: 42 · 2023: 36 · 2022: 26 · 2021: 33 · 2020: 38 · 2019: 28 · 2018: 50 · 2017: 33 · 2016: 24 · 2015: 20 · 2014: 28 · 2013: 30 · 2012: 25
- FWCI
- 98.39
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- muse.jhu.edu
- Locations
- Journal of democracy (publishedVersion)
- Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion)
- IRIS - Institutional Research Information System (Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Political Theory and Democracy
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Conflict and Governance
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Keywords
- quality of democracy, democratic backsliding, democratic consolidation, democratic deepening, rule of law, political accountability, political participation, political competition, political equality, political responsiveness, freedom, democracy measurement
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