Author: G. Bingham Powell | Journal of Democracy

G. Bingham Powell, Jr., is the Marie C. Wilson and Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester. His recent publications include Elections as Instruments of Democracy: Majoritarian and Proportional Visions (2000) and the coedited text Comparative Politics Today (2004). He is a former editor of the American Political Science Review.

October 2004, Volume 15, Issue 4

The Quality of Democracy: The Chain of Responsiveness

G. Bingham Powell

Responsiveness may be conceived as a series of linkages intended to ensure that governments respect the preferences of the governed.

Assessing the Quality of Democracy

Larry Diamond
Leonardo Morlino

"An important milestone in the study of democratic quality, and an excellent resource for both scholarly researchers and graduate courses on comparative democracy and democratization."—Daunis Auerson, Political Studies Review