Browsing by Author "Coppedge, Michael"

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    • Economic Development and Democracy: An Electoral Connection 

      Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Gerring, John; Skaaning, Svend-Erik; Teorell, Jan; Maguire, Matthew; Coppedge, Michael; Lindberg, Staffan I. (2015)
      This study takes a new tack on the question of modernization and democracy, focused on the outcome of theoretical interest. We argue that economic development affects the electoral component of democracy but has minimal ...

    • Electoral Democracy and Human Development 

      Gerring, John; Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Skanning, Svend-Erik; Teorell, Jan; Coppedge, Michael; Lindberg, Staffan I.; Maguire, Matthew (2015)
      This study attempts to reconcile competing positions in the debate over whether democracy improves human development by showing that some aspects of democracy – but not others – affect human development. Specifically, we ...

    • Eroding Regimes: What, Where, and When? 

      Coppedge, Michael (2017)
      The political world lately seems to be filled with unexpected erosions of democracy. What is the most useful way to describe these phenomena? Do they all belong to a common syndrome? Certainly there are different degrees ...

    • Experts, Coders, and Crowds: An analysis of substitutability 

      Marquardt, Kyle L.; Pemstein, Daniel; Sanhueza Petrarca, Constanza; Seim, Brigitte; Wilson, Steven Lloyd; Bernhard, Michael; Coppedge, Michael; Lindberg, Staffan I. (2017)
      Recent work suggests that crowd workers can replace experts and trained coders in common coding tasks. However, while many political science applications require coders to both and relevant information and provide judgment, ...

    • International Influence: The Hidden Dimension 

      Coppedge, Michael; Denison, Benjamin; Friesen, Paul; Tiscornia, Lucía; Xu, Yang (2021-05)
      In this paper we develop and test hypotheses about possible influences that lie outside national borders. A major reason for studying international influences is Galton’s Problem, which cautions that domestic determinants ...

    • 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, ...

    • O Brasil na perspectiva do Projeto Variedades da Democracia 

      Bizzarro Neto, Fernando (2015)
      In this article we present results for Brazil collected by the Varieties of Democracy project. We describe the historical evolution of democracy in Brazil from 1900 to 2012, focusing on its five main components (electoral, ...

    • 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 ...

    • Rethinking Consensus vs. Majoritarian Democracy 

      Coppedge, Michael (2018)
      Arend Lijphart's distinction between two dimensions of consensus and majoritarian democracy has been an influential concept. However, several scholars have reported that the distinction does not travel well to other regions ...

    • V-Dem Comparisons and Contrasts with Other Measurement Projects 

      Coppedge, Michael; Gerring, John; Lindberg, Staffan I.; Skaaning, Svend-Erik; Teorell, Jan (2017)
      For policymakers, activists, academics, and citizens around the world the conceptualization and measurement of democracy matters. The needs of democracy promoters and social scientists are convergent. We all need better ...

    • Varieties of Democratic Diffusion: Colonial and Neighbor Networks 

      Coppedge, Michael; Denison, Benjamin; Tiscornia, Lucía; Lindberg, Staffan I. (2016)
      Numerous studies have reported that countries tend to become more similar to their immediate geographic neighbors with respect to democracy. We show that a similar process of mutual adjustment can be found within very ...