Democracy in Europe

Monday, 08.10.2018

Vorstellung des Seminars; Reiseplanung; Referatsvergabe

[Presentation of the schedule; voyage planning; allocation of presentations]

Monday, 15.10.2018

1       Liberal and Illiberal Understandings of Democracy

*Dahl, Robert. 1971. Polyarchy. New Haven, London: Yale University Press, S. 1-33 [minimalist]

*Merkel, Wolfgang. 2014. Is there a crisis of democracy? Can we answer the question?

Democratic Theory Volume 1 (2), S. 11–25 doi: 10.3167/dt.2014.01020

*Bühlmann, Marc et a. 2008.The Quality of Democracy. Democracy Barometer for Established Democracies. NCCR Democracy Working Paper No. 10 [medium]

*Alvarez, Alejandro Moreno und Christian Welzel. How Values Shape People’s Views of Democracy: A Global Comparison.

*Meyer, Thomas. 2009. Was ist Demokratie? Wiesbaden: Springer VS, S. 74-80, 100-113. [https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-531-91434-3.pdf über UB Duisburg-Essen]

Morlino, Leonardo und Luiss G. Carli. 2014. How to assess democracy? What alternatives? Moscow: HSE Publishing House.

Schubert, Sophia. 2015. Inwiefern universal? Zum Demokratiebegriff in der Vergleichenden Demokratieforschung. In Transkulturelle Politische Theorie, Hrsg. Sybille de la Rosa, Sophia Schubert und Holger Zapf, 285-303. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. (WVS)

Monday, 22.10.2018

2       Democracy and the Travelling of Concepts

*Dalton, Russell J., Doh C. Shin und Willy Jou. 2007. Understanding Democracy: Data from Unlikely Places. Journal of Democracy 18:142-156.

*Pickel, Susanne, Wiebke Breustedt und Theresia Smolka. 2016. Measuring the quality of democracy: Why include the citizens’ perspective? International Political Science Review:1-11. (ESS, West vs. Osteuropa)

*Dalton, Russell J., und Doh C. Shin. 2014. Reassessing the Civic Culture Model. In The Civic Culture Transformed. From Allegiant to Assertive Citizens, Hrsg. Russell J. Dalton, und Christian Welzel, 91-115. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Bratton, Michael. 2010. Anchoring the „D-Word“ in Africa. Journal of Democracy 21:106-113. (Afrobarometer)

Canache, Damarys. 2012. Citizens’ Conceptualizations of Democracy: Structural Complexity, Substantive Content, and Political Significance. Comparative Political Studies 45:1132-1158. (Latinobarometer)

Carlin, Ryan E., und Matthew M. Singer. 2011. Support for Polyarchy in the Americas. Comparative Political Studies 44:1500-1526. (Latinobarometer)

De Regt, Sabrina. 2012. Arabs Want Democracy, but What Kind? Advances in Applied Sociology 3:37-46. (WVS, focus on Arab states)

Doherty, David, und Jessica Mecellem. Xxxx. Conceptions of Democracy in the Arab World. <http://orion.luc.edu/~ddoherty/documents/Conceptions_of_Democracy.pdf> (Arabbarometer)

Longan, Carolyn und Robert Mattes. 2012. Democratising the measurement of democratic quality: public attitude data and the evaluation of African political regimes. European Political Science No. 11; doi:10.1057/eps.2011.50

Lu, Jie, und Tianjan Shi. 2015. The battle of ideas and discourses before democratic transition: Different democratic conceptions in authoritarian China. International Political Science Review 36:20-41. (Asia Barometer)

Shin, Doh C., und Youngho Cho. 2010. How East Asians Understand Democracy: From a Comparative Perspective. Asien 116:21-40. (Asia Barometer)

Monday, 29.10.2018

3       Understandings of Democracy in the Europe

*Cho, Youngho. 2015. How Well are Global Citizenries Informed about Democracy? Ascertaining the Breadth and Distribution of Their Democratic Enlightenment and Its Sources. Political Studies 63:240-258.

*Cho. Youngho. 2014. To Know Democracy Is to Love It: A Cross-National Analysis of Democratic Understanding and Political Support for Democracy. Political Research Quarterly 67:478-488.

*Hernandez, Enrique. 2016. Europeans’ Views of Democracy. In How Europeans View and Evaluate Democracy, Monica Ferrin und Hanspeter Kriesi (Eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, S. 43-63.

*Kriesi, Hanspeter. 2016. The Structure of Europeans’ Views of Democracy. In How Europeans View and Evaluate Democracy, Monica Ferrin und Hanspeter Kriesi (Eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, S. 64-89.

Monday, 05.11.2018

4       Political Socialization

*Neundorf, Anja und Kaat Smets. 2017. Political Socializationand the Making of Citizens. Oxford Handbooks Online. http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935307.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199935307-e-98

*Easton, David. 1968. The Theoretical Relevance of Political Socialization. Canadian Journal of Political Science 1:125-146.

*Voicu, Malina, und Edurne Bartolome Peral. 2014. Support for democracy and early socialization in a non-democratic country: does the regime matter? Democratization 21:554-573.

Arensmeier, Cecilia. 2010. The democratic common sense Young Swedes’ understanding of democracy — theoretical features and educational incentives. Young 18:197-222.

Kevenhörster. Paul. 2008. Politikwissenschaft. Band 1: Entscheidungen und Strukturen der Politik. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. (Kapitel „Politische Sozialisation“, 61-109)

Rippl, Susanne. 2008. Politische Sozialisation. In Handbuch Sozialisationsforschung, Hrsg. Klaus Hurrelmann, 443-457.