Table of Contents:
  • Human development, human rights, and democracy / Guillermo O'Donnell
  • Democracy and the quality of democracy : empirical findings and methodological and theoretical issues drawn from the citizen audit of the quality of democracy in Costa Rica / Jorge Vargas Cullell
  • In search of a new paradigm : quality of democracy and human development in Latin America / Gabriela Ippolito
  • Notes on human development, human rights, and auditing the quality of democracy / Laurence Whitehead
  • Latin America : virtuous or perverse cycle / Terry Lynn Karl
  • Fundamental rights as a limitation to the democratic principle of majority will / Juan E. Méndez
  • On the imaginary of citizenry / Norbert Lechner
  • State, democracy, and social rights / María Hermínia Tavares de Almeida
  • Deepening civil and social rights / Catherine M. Conaghan
  • Unfinished business for Latin America's democracies / Osvaldo M. Iazzetta
  • Quality of democracy or quality of politics? / Manuel Alcántara Sáez
  • Quality of democracy and its measurement / Michael Coppedge
  • Democratic quality : costs and benefits of the concepts / Sebastián L. Mazzuca
  • Conceptual and methodological notes on the quality of democracy and its audit / Gerardo L. Munck.