Demokráciakutatás a politikai és közpolitikai elemzés keresztútján: A demokráciák minősége és teljesítőképessége
DEMOCRACY RESEARCH AT THE CROSSROADS OF POLITICAL AND POLICY ANALYSIS

Summary/Abstract: The great period of democracy research in the international political science at the turn of the eighties and nineties was generated by the democratization of the Central and East European countries. Since then there have been three major turning points in democracy research. The fi rst turning point or the fi rst big debate came from the character of democratization as a process, and the second one from that of the consolidation and the principle of “good governance”. Already the fi rst debate introduced the policy dimension beyond the political dimension, but the second debate completed giving priority to the policy analysis of democracies. The fact that the policy dimension as the question of good governance came to the fore, meant at the same time that the transfer of democratic institutions as the hardware was not enough, because that of the democratic political culture as the software was equally important. The third turning point in the democracy research has been necessitated by the global crisis that has radically transformed the relationships of the EU and the Member States, and it has exposed the question of “the quality of democracy”.

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