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- Title
Democracy Compared Complexities and Values.
- Authors
van Beek, Ursula
- Abstract
Before the financial crisis hit and the global recession set in, established democracies with their rising levels of affluence served to confirm the conviction that the combination of democracy and a free market was the secret to the success of achieving national prosperity. Today, economic progress in many of the developed democracies has given way to a decline in the trajectory of affluence, weakening this conviction and giving rise to many new questions. Since some of the emerging economies seemingly were less affected by the crisis, one such question is whether democracies might be more susceptible and less able to cope with economic crises than nondemocracies. This is the overall problem that the empirically based articles in this collection address. The current essay looks at the more general issue of the complexity of studying democracy in a cross-cultural context, and ponders the interplay between the core values of democracy: liberty and equality. The aim is to discover the source of the inequalities the global crisis has brought so forcefully to the forefront of our attention.
- Subjects
DEMOCRACY; VALUE congruence; ECONOMIC development; FREE enterprise; RECESSIONS
- Publication
Taiwan Journal of Democracy, 2015, Vol 11, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1815-7238
- Publication type
Article