Beyond the Radial Delusion: Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy and Non-democracy
Beyond the Radial Delusion: Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy and Non-democracy
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超越径向错觉：民主与非民主的概念化和衡量
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2010
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Svend
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J. Møller;Svend
一般政治制度的类型学，特别是民主的类型学在文献中大量存在。然而，很少有人致力于系统地审视自由民主的构成要素之间的经验关系。在这篇文章中，我们重新评估最有前途的这种尝试，即研究议程上的“有缺陷的民主”。这样做，我们确定了一个更普遍的问题，我们称之为“径向错觉”。这个问题与丢弃属性之间的层次结构的概念有关，因此创建了经验上空的、减少的子类型。我们通过构建一个替代类型学来解决这个问题，该类型学包含了完善的理论结构，并为所有相关类型分配了引用。此外，经验分布实际上符合一个完美的简单秩序规模的层次逻辑，证明了民主规模的建设。
Typologies of political regimes in general and of democracy in particular proliferate in the literature. However, few efforts have been devoted to systematically scrutinizing the empirical relationship between the constitutive components of liberal democracy. In this article, we reassess the most promising such attempt, namely, the research agenda on “defective democracies.” Doing so, we identify a more general problem, which we term the “radial delusion.” This problem has to do with discarding the notion of a hierarchy among the attributes, thus creating empirically empty, diminished subtypes. We solve this by constructing an alternative typology that embraces well-established theoretical constructs and assigns referents to all relevant types. Furthermore, the empirical distribution virtually conforms to the hierarchical logic of a perfect simple order scale which justifies the construction of a democracy scale.