agreement on what empirical phenomena is delineated by the concept. For instance, Kenneth Bollen (1980) submitted that “[democracy] is the extent to which the political power of the elite is minimized and that of the non-elite...
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different meanings to the word. Yet, while it is almost banal to state that there is no universally accepted definition of democracy, the seeming variety of definitions does, in fact, hide a good deal of agreement among expert...