Browsing by Author "Boese, Vanessa A."

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    • Democratic Legacies: Using Democratic Stock to Assess Norms, Growth, and Regime Trajectories 

      Edgell, Amanda B.; Wilson, Matthew C.; Boese, Vanessa A.; Grahn, Sandra (2020-05)
      While social scientists often theorize about the enduring effects of past regime characteristics, conceptual issues and data limitations pose real challenges for assessing these legacies empirically. This paper introduces ...

    • Deterring Dictatorship: Explaining Democratic Resilience since 1900 

      Boese, Vanessa A.; Edgell, Amanda B.; Hellmeier, Sebastian; Maerz, Seraphine F.; Lindberg, Staffan I. (V-Dem Institute, 2020-05)
      Democracy is under threat globally from democratically elected leaders engaging in erosion of media freedom, civil society, and the rule of law. What distinguishes democracies that prevail against the forces of autocratization? ...

    • Empirical Dimensions of Electoral Democracy 

      Wilson, Matthew C.; Boese, Vanessa A. (2020-09)
      This paper investigates conceptual ambiguities concerning the dimensionality of democracy and what it can tell us about political development. We explore variation in components of the Electoral Democracy Index from the ...

    • Establishing Pathways to Democracy Using Domination Analysis 

      Edgell, Amanda B.; Boese, Vanessa A.; Maerz, Seraphine F.; Lindenfors, Patrik; Lindberg, Staffan I. (2020)
      How does the order in which liberalization unfolds a ect the likelihood for a successful democratic transition? Dahl was among the rst to argue that the sequence matters for the outcome when it comes to democratization. ...

    • Institutional Order in Episodes of Autocratization 

      Sato, Yuko; Lundstedt, Martin; Morrison, Kelly; Boese, Vanessa A.; Lindberg, Staffan I. (V-Dem Working Paper, 2022-10)
      Are there patterns in the sequences of institutional change when democracies autocratize? If so, are such patterns distinct for democracies that transition to authoritarianism versus those that avert democratic breakdown? ...

    • Populism and COVID-19: How Populist Governments (Mis)Handle the Pandemic 

      Bayerlein, Michael; Boese, Vanessa A.; Gates, Scott; Kamin, Katrin; Syed Mansoob, Murshed (2021-05)
      Populist parties and actors now govern various countries around the world. Often elected by the public in times of economic crises and over the perceived failure of the elites, the question stands as to how populist ...

    • 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 ...

    • Visualizing Authority Patterns over Space and Time 

      Boese, Vanessa A.; Gates, Scott; Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Nygård, Håvard Mokleiv; Strand, Håvard (2020)
      Unidimensional measures of democracy fail to account for the complex and varied nature of political systems. This article disaggregates the concept of democracy and proposes a multidimensional conceptualization to account ...

    • Which Institutions Rule? Unbundling the Democracy-Growth Nexus 

      Boese, Vanessa A.; Eberhardt, Markus (2022-02)
      Over the past two decades studies of the causal impact of ‘institutions’ and ‘democracy’ on economic prosperity have occupied a prominent position in the cross-country growth litera-ture and within economics more broadly. ...