THE PROJECT VOLUME - Chapter 1

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Publisher:  Pragma Publishing
Online publication date:  December 2023
Chapter DOI:  https://doi.org/10.62483/47046093

Democratic Political Institutions in Europe

Attila Mráz and Annabelle Lever

ABSTRACT

This chapter provides a descriptive overview of the most significant, ethically relevant features of democratic political systems and electoral institutions in Europe rather than a comprehensive empirical overview of these systems and institutions. To this purpose, the chapter pursues two objectives:

  1. To systematically present the most important variables of institutional design within the diversity of European democratic political systems and institutions;
  2. To identify those features of European democratic political systems and institutions that are relevant to the ethics of voting from a voter-centred perspective.

This paves the way for the evaluation of political and electoral systems in terms of the ethical burdens they impose on the voter, summarising relevant descriptive findings in political science in ways that are helpful in themselves, but relevant also to the civic educational aspects of REDEM project.

Citation
Mráz, Attila, and Annabelle Lever. 2023. ‘Democratic Political Institutions in Europe’. In Reconstructing Democracy in Times of Crisis - A Voter-Centred Perspective, ed. Annabelle Lever. Paris: Pragma Publishing, 7–52. https://doi.org/10.62483/47046093.
Mráz, A., & Lever, A. (2023). Democratic Political Institutions in Europe. In A. Lever (Ed.), Reconstructing Democracy in Times of Crisis—A Voter-Centred Perspective (pp. 7–52). Pragma Publishing. https://doi.org/10.62483/47046093
Mráz, Attila, and Annabelle Lever. 2023. ‘Democratic Political Institutions in Europe’. In Reconstructing Democracy in Times of Crisis - A Voter-Centred Perspective, edited by Annabelle Lever, 7–52. Paris: Pragma Publishing. https://doi.org/10.62483/47046093.
Mráz, A. and Lever, A. (2023) ‘Democratic Political Institutions in Europe’, in A. Lever (ed.) Reconstructing Democracy in Times of Crisis - A Voter-Centred Perspective. Paris: Pragma Publishing, pp. 7–52. Available at: https://doi.org/10.62483/47046093.
Mráz, Attila, and Annabelle Lever, ‘Democratic Political Institutions in Europe’, in Reconstructing Democracy in Times of Crisis - A Voter-Centred Perspective, ed. by Annabelle Lever (Paris: Pragma Publishing, 2023), pp. 7–52 <https://doi.org/10.62483/47046093>
Mráz, Attila, and Annabelle Lever. ‘Democratic Political Institutions in Europe’. Reconstructing Democracy in Times of Crisis - A Voter-Centred Perspective, edited by Annabelle Lever, Pragma Publishing, 2023, pp. 7–52, https://doi.org/10.62483/47046093.
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