The quality of Democracy: an overview

As democracy has spread to a majority of the world's states over the past three decades scholars, politicians, activists, and aid administration have gone from asking why transitions happen and what are these new regimes like. A particular dimension of the quality of democracy such as freedom, the rule of law, vertical accountability, responsiveness, and equality are discussed where some of the ways in which the different elements of democracy not only overlap, but also depend upon one another, forming a system in which improvement along one dimensions can have beneficial effects along other.