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1. Mechanisms of democracy
: institutional design writ small
by Vermeule, Adrian, 1968
2007, ISBN 0195333462, 262
What institutional arrangements should a well-functioning constitutional democracy have? Most of the relevant literatures in law, political science, political... 
Representative government and representation | Democracy | Public institutions | Voting | Decision making | Judicial process | Politics & government | constitutional and administrative law | United States | Mechanisms of democracy | Transparent deliberation | Voting rules | Democratic theory | Institutional design | Constitutional law | Institutional design writ small
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2. Full Text Qué diablos finalmente es la democracia en América Latina?: Política y populismo en tiempos de globalización
by Gamboa Rocabado, Franco
Reflexión política, ISSN 0124-0781, 2010, Issue 23
The possibility to define a precise meaning of democracy in the Twenty First Century demands answering multiple questions regarding its consolidation, which... 
Democracia formal | populism | populismo | América Latina y teoría política de la democracia | Latin America and theory of democracy | mecanismos de democracia directa | democratic consolidation | social and political actors | actores sociales y políticos | consolidación democrática | Formal democracy | mechanisms of direct democracy
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3. Full Text Democracy and differentiation in Europe
by Fossum, John Erik
Journal of European Public Policy, ISSN 1350-1763, 07/2015, Volume 22, Issue 6, pp. 799 - 815
This contribution addresses two questions. First, what forms and shapes does European Union (EU) differentiation take in the realm of representative democracy... 
Coping mechanisms | differentiation | differentiated integration | European Union | representation | democracy | DEMOICRACY | INTEGRATION | POLITICAL SCIENCE | PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION | UNION
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4. Full Text Income and the stability of democracy: Pushing beyond the borders of logic to explain a strong correlation?
by Traversa, Federico and Traversa, Federico
Constitutional Political Economy, ISSN 1043-4062, 6/2015, Volume 26, Issue 2, pp. 121 - 136
The statistical relationship between economic development and duration of democracy is one of the strongest in Political Science. Nevertheless, the theoretical... 
Economic Development | Social Sciences, general | Economic Theory | Relative Income | Constitutional Law | Democratic Stability | Mechanism | Political Science, general | Democracy | Analysis | Studies | Economic models | Economic theory | Political science | Income | Political economy | Economic development
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5. Full Text The Power of the Multitude: Answering Epistemic Challenges to Democracy
by Bagg, Samuel
American Political Science Review, ISSN 0003-0554, 11/2018, Volume 112, Issue 4, pp. 891 - 904
Recent years have witnessed growing controversy over the wisdom of the multitude. As epistemic critics drawing on vast empirical evidence have cast doubt on... 
POLITICAL SCIENCE | Democracy | Epistemics | Analysis | Mechanism (Philosophy) | Empiricism | Competition | Political power | Voting rights | Meritocracy | Epistemology | Citizens | State power | Discretionary power | Ignorance | Elections | 20th century | Voters | Reliability
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6. Civil society, welfare state, market mechanism. On forgotten role of democracy
by Rotengruber, Przemyslaw
Prakseologia, ISSN 0079-4872, 2015, Volume 2, Issue 157, pp. 231 - 247
Market mechanism | Welfare state | Democracy | Civil society
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7. Democracy and the rise of women's movements in Sub-Saharan Africa
by Fallon, Kathleen M
2008, ISBN 9780801890086, x, 168
Women | Women in politics | Women and democracy | Africa, Sub-Saharan Politics and government | Social conditions
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8. Full Text A Desultory Defense of Democracy: OAS Resolution 1080 and the Inter-American Democratic Charter
by Barry S. Levitt
Latin American Politics and Society, ISSN 1531-426X, 10/2006, Volume 48, Issue 3, pp. 93 - 123
This article evaluates the effectiveness of OAS mechanisms for safeguarding democracy through multilateral diplomacy, what some scholars have dubbed the... 
Government crises | International cooperation | Government | Meetings | Democracy | International defense | Secretaries general | Defense mechanisms | Latin American politics | Liberalism | Pan-Americanism | Analysis | Politics | Rules | International relations
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9. Full Text The African Union and the promotion of democracy and good political governance under the African Peer-Review Mechanism: 10 years on
by Mangu, André Mbata
Africa Review, ISSN 0974-4053, 01/2014, Volume 6, Issue 1, pp. 59 - 72
In May 2013, the African Union (AU) commemorated both the 50th anniversary of the Organisation of African Unity and the 10th anniversary of the African... 
African Peer-Review Mechanism | African Union | good political governance | democracy | Africa | African renaissance | Democracy | Politics | Peer review
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10. Full Text Illusionary fairness and controlled democracy: a critical examination of blind audition and voting system in The Voice of China
by Jiang, Xinxin
Media, Culture & Society, ISSN 0163-4437, 11/2018, Volume 40, Issue 8, pp. 1237 - 1251
This article critically examines the blind audition and the voting system in The Voice of China to understand how the singing competition show narrates the... 
The Voice of China | the voting mechanism | singing competition | power negotiation | the blind audition | popular music | COMMUNICATION | SOCIOLOGY | Competition | Cultural values | Consciousness | Globalization | Television programs | Equity | Ethics | Hearing | Chinese culture | Voting | Voting machines | Democracy | Aesthetics | Auditions
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11. Full Text REDD+ and Empowered Deliberative Democracy: Learning from Tanzania
by Mustalahti, Irmeli and Rakotonarivo, O. Sarobidy
World Development, ISSN 0305-750X, 07/2014, Volume 59, pp. 199 - 211
This study was guided by the Empowered Deliberative Democracy (EDD) discourse. We analyzed how the Tanzanian Community Carbon Enterprise (CCE) model could... 
accountability mechanisms | benefit sharing | EDD | REDD | decision-making | Tanzania | Decision-making | Accountability mechanisms | Benefit sharing | Deforestation | Democracy | Analysis | Studies | Project management | Accountability | Emissions control | Discourse analysis | Decision analysis
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12. Full Text Feministische Überlegungen zu Postdemokratie und der Entpolitisierung des Sozialen
by Gundula Ludwig
Politische Vierteljahresschrift, ISSN 0032-3470, 1/2013, Volume 54, Issue 3, pp. 461 - 484
From a feminist perspective the text argues that Crouch's diagnosis of a 'postdemocracy' remains conceptually limited because it denies the interwovenness of... 
THEMENSCHWERPUNKT „Postdemokratie und soziale Demokratie | Social relations | Post-democracy | Mechanisms of depolitization | Gender
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13. Full Text Participatory Mechanisms in Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela: Deepening or Undermining Democracy?
by Balderacchi, Claudio
Government and Opposition, ISSN 0017-257X, 01/2017, Volume 52, Issue 1, pp. 131 - 161
Through the comparative analysis of the participatory mechanisms established in Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela, this study explores under which conditions such... 
Ecuador | Venezuela | Participatory mechanisms | Bolivia | democracy | participatory mechanisms | LEFT TURNS | POLITICAL SCIENCE | POLITICS | LATIN-AMERICA | Separation of powers | Political participation | Social groups | Manipulation | Democracy | Citizen participation | Comparative analysis | Development policy
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14. Full Text REDD plus and Empowered Deliberative Democracy: Learning from Tanzania
by Mustalahti, I and Rakotonarivo, OS
WORLD DEVELOPMENT, ISSN 0305-750X, 07/2014, Volume 59, pp. 199 - 211
This study was guided by the Empowered Deliberative Democracy (EDD) discourse. We analyzed how the Tanzanian Community Carbon Enterprise (CCE) model could... 
MANAGEMENT | EDD | SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA | SERVICES | Tanzania | accountability mechanisms | benefit sharing | PARTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE | FOREST | PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT | DECENTRALIZATION | CONSERVATION | POVERTY | REDD | decision-making | ACCOUNTABILITY | ECONOMICS | LATIN-AMERICA
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15. Full Text Conditions of Democratic Erosion: Has U.S. Democracy Reached a Tipping Point?
by Christian Tubbs
Homeland Security Affairs, 12/2018
For more than half a century, academics have expressed unease over the erosion of democratic governance in the United States and abroad.[1] Scholars have... 
Leadership | Divergence | Psychology | Diamonds | Colleges & universities | War | Research | Institutions | Constitutional law | Case studies | Fear & phobias | Historical account | Laws | Breakdown | Division | Qualitative analysis | Constitution | Content analysis | Erosion | Economics | Poverty | Erosion mechanisms | Phobias | Abuse | Violence | Aggression | Globalization | Hazards | Regression analysis | Public policy | Political leadership | Erosion rates | Decay | Democracy | Politics | Legitimacy | World War II | Inequality
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16. Full Text Dispute Settlement Mechanisms in Preferential Trade Agreements: Democracy, Boilerplates, and the Multilateral Trade Regime
by Hyeran Jo and Hyun Namgung
The Journal of Conflict Resolution, ISSN 0022-0027, 12/2012, Volume 56, Issue 6, pp. 1041 - 1068
Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) have increased dramatically in the past several decades and play an important role in the global economy. Dispute... 
International agreements | Legalism | International trade | Demand side management | Democracy | Trade development | Trade legislation | Multilateralism | Political regimes | International disputes | multilateral trade regime | preferential trade agreements | dispute settlement mechanism | democracy | emulation | DESIGN | DETERMINANTS | POLITICS | SELECTION BIAS | OVERLAPPING INSTITUTIONS | POLICY | INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS | INTERSTATE | POLITICAL SCIENCE | LIBERALIZATION | United States | Analysis | Commercial treaties | Dispute resolution (Law) | International economic relations | Methods | Studies | Trade agreements | Alternative dispute resolution
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17. Effective democracy
by Kiefer, Bertrand
Revue medicale suisse, ISSN 1660-9379, 01/2011, Volume 7, Issue 278, p. 176
Reimbursement Mechanisms | Humans | Democracy | Complementary Therapies - economics
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18. Full Text Can the descriptive-substantive link survive beyond democracy? The policy impact of women representatives
by Forman-Rabinovici, Aliza and Sommer, Udi
Democratization, ISSN 1351-0347, 11/2019, Volume 26, Issue 8, pp. 1513 - 1533
That women offer substantive representation in democratic systems is well established. However, can they do so in partial or non-democracies? As less than half... 
women's representation | reproductive rights | political inclusion | women leadership | women's rights | political representation | mechanisms of representation | Women | Neutralism | Democracy | Expenditures | Representation | Equality | Womens rights | Health education | Health care services policy
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19. Full Text Semi-presidentialism, moderating power and inclusive governance. The experience of Timor-Leste in consolidating democracy
by Feijó, Rui Graça
Democratization, ISSN 1351-0347, 02/2014, Volume 21, Issue 2, pp. 268 - 288
The relationship between the choice of a government system, namely semi-presidentialism, and the performance of democracy is the subject of current debate.... 
incentive mechanisms | semi-presidentialism | inclusive governance | independent presidents | moderating power | democratic consolidation | POLITICAL SCIENCE
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20. Full Text Cultural diversity, democracy and the prospects of cosmopolitanism: a theory of cultural encounters
by Delanty, Gerard
The British Journal of Sociology, ISSN 0007-1315, 12/2011, Volume 62, Issue 4, pp. 633 - 656
The most appropriate way of theorizing cultural diversity is to situate it in the context of a broader relational theory of culture in which the key dynamic is... 
the concept of culture | Cultural diversity | cosmopolitanism | cultural encounters | democracy | Cosmopolitanism | Democracy | The concept of culture | Cultural encounters | IDENTITY | MECHANISMS | SOCIOLOGY | Cultural Diversity | Attitude | Humans | Culture | Multiculturalism | Universities and colleges | Studies | Sociology | Multiculturalism & pluralism
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