A review of “Global Quality of Democracy as Innovation Enabler: Measuring Democracy for Success” by David Campbell
Book Review
Mag. phil. Dr. phil. Campbell, David Friedrich James, PD (Privatdozent)
. (2019). Global Quality of Democracy as Innovation Enabler. Measuring Democracy for Success. Palgrave Studies in Democracy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Growth. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 509 s
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https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319725284
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https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-72529-1...
... regimes, one can mention, inter alia, several books, and papers that scrutinize the global development trends within a general discourse of societal progress. These studies position various countries and nations along such axes, as “democracy — autocracy”, “progressing –lagging behind”, “efficiency — inefficiency” and similar dimen-sions. Good examples of such comprehensive and ground-breaking studies are the works of Ronald Inglehart and his colleagues from the World Value Survey ...
This book assesses the interconnectedness of democracy and economic development. It concentrates on how to conceptualize and to measure democracy and quality of democracy in global comparison. The author makes the argument that a quality-of-democracy understanding based on sustainable development relates crucially with economic growth, but more so with economic development. The empirical macro-model focuses on approximately over hundred countries (in a world model) and covers about a fourteen-year...
