The quality of democracy : theory and applications / edited by Guillermo O'Donnell, Jorge Vargas Cullell, and Osvaldo M. Iazzetta.

"Recent titles from the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies"

Based on a workshop on the quality of democracy and human development in Latin America, held in Heredia, Costa Rica, Feb. 1-2, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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. Médez -- 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.