Keywords
conjunctural causality
democracy
government performance
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Abstract
The strength of democracy is related to government performance and its synergy with society through the distribution of power by promoting social capital, economic freedom and the rule of law. For this reason, the article makes use of the Comparative Qualitative Analysis (fs/QCA) in order to identify the causal conditions of necessity and sufficiency to strengthen democracy under the comparison of 83 countries randomly taken from the EIU democracy index of 2021 and six causal conditions; government performance, social capital, natural capital, political participation, economic freedom and rule of law.
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