Author: David Beetham | Journal of Democracy

David Beetham is professor emeritus at the University of Leeds and fellow of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex. As associate director of the U.K. Democratic Audit, he has contributed to developing methodologies for democracy assessment of both established and transitional democracies. His latest book is Democracy: A Beginner’s Guide (2005).

October 2004, Volume 15, Issue 4

The Quality of Democracy: Freedom as the Foundation

David Beetham

Freedom has always been integral to democracy. How to guard liberty is a question every democratic regime must answer.

Assessing the Quality of Democracy

Larry Diamond
Leonardo Morlino

"An important milestone in the study of democratic quality, and an excellent resource for both scholarly researchers and graduate courses on comparative democracy and democratization."—Daunis Auerson, Political Studies Review