Author: Dietrich Rueschemeyer | Journal of Democracy

Dietrich Rueschemeyer is professor of sociology and Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr., Professor of International Studies Emeritus at Brown University. He currently holds an appointment as research professor at Brown’s Watson Institute of International Studies.

October 2004, Volume 15, Issue 4

The Quality of Democracy: Addressing Inequality

Dietrich Rueschemeyer

Democracy requires robust political equality, but the persistence of social, economic and cultural inequality complicates its realization.

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