 PhD Summer School 2007 on
Governance and Democracy in Central Eastern Europe
Detailed Academic Program
Session 1: (Monday, August 13)
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| PATTERNS OF DEMOCRACY IN CENTRAL EASTERN EUROPE
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Ferdinand Müller-Rommel
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Building on previous research about "patterns of democracy" in parliamentary systems, this lecture deals with institutional structures and actor-oriented constellations of democracy in 10 Central Eastern European countries from 1990 to 2004. It will present theoretical and empirical evidence that a two dimensional map of "consensual" and "majoritarian" democracy does not exist in Central Eastern Europe. The lecture will therefore introduce a new model for measuring democratic performance. The findings are based on current research about the impact of institutional arrangements on the policy performance in post-communist countries.
Reading
Armingeon, Klaus (2002). The Effects of Negotiation Democracy: A Comparative Analysis, in: European Journal of Political Research, pp. 81-105.
Kaiser, Andre et al. (2002). The Democratic Quality of Institutional Regimes: A Conceptual Framework, in: Political Studies, pp. 313-331.
Lijphart, Arend (1984). Democracies. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Müller-Rommel, Ferdinand et al. (2004). Party Government in Central Eastern European Democracies, in: European Journal of Political Research, pp.869-893.
Roller, Edeltraud (2005). The Performance of Democracies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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