Browsing by Author "Lindberg, Staffan I."
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Investigating Sequences in Ordinal Data: A New Approach with Adapted Evolutionary Models
Lindenfors, Patrik; Jansson, Fredrik; Wang, Yi-ting; Lindberg, Staffan I. (2015)This paper presents a new approach for studying sequences across combinations of binary and ordinal variables. The approach involves three novel methodologies (frequency analysis, graphical mapping of changes between ... -
Keeping the Democratic Façade: Contemporary Autocratization as a Game of Deception
Lührmann, Anna; Lindberg, Staffan I. (2018)Less than thirty years after Fukuyama and others declared liberal democracy’s eternal dominance, a third wave of autocratization is manifest. Gradual declines of democratic regime attributes characterize contemporary ... -
Legislative Powers and Executive Corruption
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Measuring Electoral Democracy with V-Dem Data: Introducing a New Polyarchy Index
Teorell, Jan; Coppedge, Michael; Lindberg, Staffan I.; Skaaning, Svend-Erik (2016)This paper presents a new measure of electoral democracy, or "polyarchy", for a global sample of 173 countries from 1900 to the present based on the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) data, enabling us to address several ... -
Measuring High Level Democratic Principles using the V-Dem Data
Coppedge, Michael; Lindberg, Staffan I.; Skaaning, Svend-Erik; Teorell, Jan (2015)While the definition of extended conceptions of democracy has been widely discussed, the measurement of these constructs has not attracted similar attention. In this paper we present new measures of polyarchy, liberal ... -
Measuring Political Participation in Southern Europe: The Varieties of Democracy Approach
Fernandes, Tiago; Cancela, João; Coppedge, Michael; Lindberg, Staffan I.; Hicken, Allen (2015)Most schools of democratic theory consider political participation to have a positive impact in deepening democracy. Political participation makes democracies more accountable and freer, as well as creating more engaged, ... -
MPs, Clientelism, and Collective Goods
Lindberg, Staffan I. (2011-11)The present analysis indicates that MPs in Ghana's young democracy has begun to act on the implications of this accountability and that voters in this African country do evaluate their political leaders not only on personal ... -
Neopatrimonialism and Democracy: An Empirical Investigation of Africa's Political Regimes
Sigman, Rachel; Lindberg, Staffan I. (2017)One of the most common adjectives used to describe democracy in sub-Saharan Africa is "neopatrimonial". Characterized by strong executives, pervasive clientelism and use of state resources for political legitimation (Bratton ... -
No Democratic Transition Without Women’s Rights: A Global Sequence Analysis 1900-2012
Wang, Yi-ting; Lindenfors, Patrik; Sundström, Aksel; Jansson, Fredrik; Lindberg, Staffan I. (2015-09)What determines countries’ successful transition to democracy? Research has focused on socioeconomic and institutional factors, yet the assumption that political liberalization has to precede democratization has not been ... -
On Revolutions
Leroi, Armand M.; Lambert, Ben; Mauch, Matthias; Papadopoulou, Marina; Ananiadou, Sophia; Lindberg, Staffan I.; Lindenfors, Patrik (2018)Sometimes the normal course of events is disrupted by a particularly swift and profound change. Historians have often referred to such changes as "revolutions" and, though they have identied many of them, they have rarely ... -
Ordinal Versions of V-Dem’s Indices: For Classification, Description, Sequencing Analysis and Other Purposes
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Party Strength and Economic Growth
Bernhard, Michael; Bizzarro, Fernando; Coppedge, Michael; Gerring, John; Hicken, Allen; Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Lindberg, Staffan I.; Skaaning, Svend-Erik (2015-09)This study argues that strong parties play a critical role in fostering economic development. The theory explores how parties broaden the constituencies to which policy makers respond and help politicians to solve coordination ... -
Regimes In the World (RIW): A Robust Regime Type Measure based on V-Dem
Lührmann, Anna; Lindberg, Staffan I.; Tannenberg, Marcus (2017)Classifying political regimes has never been as difficult as in this day and age. Most regimes in the world now hold de-jure multiparty elections with universal suffrage. Yet, in some countries these elections ensure that ... -
Sequential Requisites Analysis: A New Method for Analyzing Sequential Relationships in Ordinal Data
Lindenfors, Patrik; Krusell, Joshua; Lindberg, Staffan I. (2016)This paper presents a new method inspired by evolutionary biology for analyzing longer sequences of requisites for the emergence of particular outcome variables across numerous combinations of ordinal variables in social ... -
Strategies of Validation: Assessing the Varieties of Democracy Corruption Data
McMann, Kelly; Pemstein, Daniel; Seim, Brigitte; Teorell, Jan; Lindberg, Staffan I. (2016)Social scientists face the challenge of determining whether their data are valid, yet they lack prac- tical guidance about how to do so. Existing publications on data validation provide mostly abstract information for ... -
Successful and Failed Episodes of Democratization: Conceptualization, Identification, and Description
Wilson, Matthew C.; Morgan, Richard; Medzihorsky, Juraj; Maxwell, Laura; Maerz, Seraphine F.; Lührmann, Anna; Lindenfors, Patrik; Edgell, Amanda B.; Boese, Vanessa A.; Lindberg, Staffan I. (2020)What explains successful democratization? This paper makes four contributions towards providing more sophisticated answers to this question. Building on the comparative case study and large-N literature, it first presents ... -
Successful and Failed Episodes of Democratization: Conceptualization, Identification, and Description
Lindberg, Staffan I.; Lindenfors, Patrik; Lührmann, Anna; Maxwell, Laura; Medzihorsky, Juraj; Morgan, Richard; Wilson, Matthew C. (2018)What explains successful democratization? Answering this requires that researchers identify not only countries that successfully transitioned to democracy, but also those that began to liberalize—that initiated institutional ... -
Suicide by Competition? Authoritarian Institutional Adaptation and Regime Fragility
Bernhard, Michael; Edgell, Amanda B.; Lindberg, Staffan I. (2016)While it is clear that contemporary authoritarian incumbents use democratic emulation as a strategy in the hopes of stabilizing and extending their tenure in power, this does not mean it is always effective. Indeed, an ... -
The Accountability Sequence: From De-jure to De-facto Constraints on Governments
Mechkova, Valeriya; Lührmann, Anna; Lindberg, Staffan I. (2017)Accountability is one of the cornerstones of good governance. Establishing accountable governments is a top priority on the international development agenda. Yet, scholars and democracy practitioners know little about how ... -
The Index of Egalitarian Democracy and Its Components: V-Dem's Conceptualization and Measurement
Sigman, Rachel; Lindberg, Staffan I. (2015)