Democracy Democracy under stress : changing perspectives on democracy, governance and their measurement / Petra Guasti and Zdenka Mansfeldová (eds.). -- 1st ed. -- Prague : Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences, 2018. -- Scope and content: "Democracy, defined as liberal pluralism, is under stress worldwide. Pluralistic democratic institutions: a free press, civil society and the rule of law all seem to be under attack. Democracies are being hollowed out from within while preserving the fundamental facade of elections. The strength of this book is in providing a range of perspectives on the study of democracy under stress. The authors, renown scholars of democratic theory and democracy in the Central and Eastern Europe, highlight the potential of different approaches – from comparative meta-assessment using indices and survey data, to case studies focused on understanding context and causal processes – for a better grasp of the loci of the stress." -- Cover. -- ISBN : 978-80-7330-307-5 (brožováno). Guasti, Petra, 1978-. Mansfeldová, Zdenka, 1950- demokracie * liberalismus * politologie * východní Evropa