TY  - JOUR
A1  - Mayne, Quinton
A1  - Geißel, Brigitte
T1  - Don’t good democracies need "good" citizens? : citizen dispositions and the study of democratic quality
T2  - Politics and governance
N2  - This article advances the argument that quality of democracy depends not only on the performance of democratic institutions but also on the dispositions of citizens. We make three contributions to the study of democratic quality. First, we develop a fine-grained, structured conceptualization of the three core dispositions (democratic commitments, political capacities, and political participation) that make up the citizen component of democratic quality. Second, we provide a more precise account of the notion of inter-component congruence or "fit" between the institutional and citizen components of democratic quality, distinguishing between static and dynamic forms of congruence. Third, drawing on cross-national data, we show the importance of taking levels of inter-dispositional consistency into account when measuring democratic quality.
KW  - citizens
KW  - democracy
KW  - democratic commitments
KW  - political capacity
KW  - political participation
KW  - quality of democracy
Y1  - 2018
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/46503
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-465033
SN  - 2183-2463
N1  - © 2018 by the authors; licensee Cogitatio (Lisbon, Portugal). This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY).
VL  - 6
IS  - 1
SP  - 33
EP  - 47
PB  - Cogitatio Press
CY  - Lisbon
ER  -