Challenges of democracy in the 21st century : concepts, methods, causality and the quality of democracy / edited by Luca Tomini and Giulia Sandri.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The quality of democracy : towards a new research agenda / Luca Tomini and Giulia Sandri -- Some critical thoughts on researching the quality of democracy / Philippe C. Schmitter -- Aggregating a multi-dimensional concept : the quality of democracy / Dirk Berg-Schlosser -- Accountability through stages of democratization : a causal explanation of quality of democracy / Luca Tomini -- Democratic quality and democratic survival / Anib́al Peŕez-Linãń and Noah Smith -- Economic crisis and democracy : how to analyze the impact of the former on the latter / Leonardo Morlino -- The cornerstone of the quality of democracy : electoral accountability in EU member states / Stefano Rombi and Fulvio Venturino -- Patterns of regional democracy : government forms and performance in federal and decentralised West-European countries / Reǵis Dandoy and Giulia Sandri -- Protecting the rule of law and the state of democracy at the supranational level : political dilemmas and institutional struggles in strengthening EU's input, output, and throughput legitimacy / Ramona Coman.