on democracy and single market rules are still weak among the citizens; the Eurozone’s performance on competitiveness is … relatively weak and the monetary policy is ambiguous for the real interests of SMEs and families. In other words, there were many … of an extended democracy for 450 million inhabitants: local empowerment (regions) and horizontal cooperation. Although …

examined, what is found most lethal to democracy is the combination of domestic elite interest with the foreign policy interest …One of the presumed components of liberal democracy is the principle of pluralism. This principle is presumably … democratic discourse, indeed even the meaning of democracy itself. A further question is examined, and this pertains to the …

episode (in favor of democracy) of the “pendulum practice”. There were still both populist (Peru, Venezuela, Brazil) and …’s transition to democracy occurred at the end of the decade. In synthesis, during the “pendulum phase”, both populist and … bureaucratic decision making processes were highly illiberal, and below the minimum conditions of democracy. In fact, controls (by …

In the EU candidate countries the citizens’ support for the democratic process is important for domestic democracy as …. Focusing on economic expectations, political knowledge, political discussion and education, in this paper democracy support in … for the democratic process. On the contrary, in Turkey the explicative models of democracy support are significant and …