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Democracy without Democratic Values: A Rejoinder to Welzel and Inglehart

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

In reply to Welzel and Inglehart in this issue, we deploy three lines of criticism. First, we argue that their newly invented construct "effective democracy" is conceptually and empirically flawed. Second, we show that their results are highly sensitive to model specification. Regardless of the time period, their supportive evidence vanishes if a more pertinent measure of democracy is used instead of measures based on the absence of corruption, if a broader index of socioeconomic modernization is controlled for, and if their compound index of emancipative values is replaced by its core component: liberty aspirations. Third, we find that emancipative values are not a coherent syndrome at the individual level within countries, rendering the causal mechanism linking these values to democracy through collective action unintelligible. We conclude that democratic values are not a robust determinant of democratization.

Publiceringsår

2006

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

95-111

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Studies in Comparative International Development

Volym

41

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Transaction Publishers

Ämne

  • Political Science

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0039-3606