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    • A Short History of Contestation and Participation 

      Boese, Vanessa; Wilson, Matthew (2022-01)
      Contestation and participation are commonly viewed as the two constituent dimensions of electoral democracy. How exactly have these two dimensions been conceptualized and measured in the literature? Are they empirically ...
    • Democracy Doesn’t Always Happen Over Night: Regime Change in Stages and Economic Growth 

      Boese, Vanessa; Eberhardt, Markus (V-Dem Institute, 2021-02)
      We motivate and empirically analyse the idea that democratic regime change is not a dis-crete event but a two-stage process: in the first stage, autocracies enter into an ‘episode’ of political liberalization which can last ...