What Democracy Is... And Is Not - Schmitter and Karl

Question 1

Modern political democracy

Answer 1

a system of governance in which rulers are held accountable for their actions in the public realm by citizens, acting indirectly through the competition and cooperation of their elected representatives

Question 2

Regime

Answer 2

system of governance; an ensemble of patterns that determines the methods of access to the principal political offices

Question 3

Electoralism

Answer 3

faith that merely holding elections will channel political action into peaceful contests among elites and accord public legitimacy to the winners

Question 4

Principles that make democracy feasible

Answer 4

both the citizens and elected officials must follow and respect the voting process

Question 5

What democracy is not…

Answer 5

it is not necessarily more economically or administratively efficient than any other form of government