Thailand: The state of liberal democracy

Subjective Measures of Liberal Democracy

Using democracy in empirical work requires accurate measurement. Yet, most policy and academic research presupposes the accuracy of available measures. This article explores judgespecific measurement errors in cross-national indicators of liberal democracy. The authors evaluate the magnitude of these errors in widely used measures of democracy and determine whether their results replicate durin...

Public Service and Liberal Democracy

The debate on television’s "public service"obligations can only make full sense if integrated in the broader context of the debate on the best political model for society. In fact, the classic "public service"rationale is based in a normative conception of good and in a suspicious view of the average citizen that is largely tributary of a Platonic or Elitist approach to the political organizati...

� Liberal Democracy , Secularization , and � The End of Metaphysics �

Repentance and the Liberal State

The article defends four broad theses: that repentance is the intrinsically appropriate response to moral wrongdoing (Part II); that legal punishment may seek to facilitate repentance and, when repentance is in evidence prior to the completion of a justified punishment, that it can be a legitimate ground for the merciful reduction of the offender’s sentence (Part III); that according repentance...

“tyrany of the majority", and the rights of minorities in liberal democracy

raising the concept of ‘tyrany of the majority’ by federalists , alexi de tocqueville and john stuart mill in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , they revealed a new form of tyrany which was uniqe for those who had experienced despotic regimes . with the critique of democracy baised on majority vote , the question of ethnic , religious and linguistic minorities , along with their rights and f...