Basic Principles & Mediating Values (Excerpt from International IDEA''s "Assessing the Quality of Democracy")

This is an excerpt from International IDEA''s "Assessing the Quality of Democracy." It sets out the basic democratic principles, namely popular control and political equality, along with the mediating values that inform those principles: participation, authorization, representation, accountability, transparency, responsiveness, and solidarity. It is through these guiding values that the health of democracy is assessed.&ampnbsp