Browsing by Author "Skaaning, Svend-Erik"

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    • Civil Society, Party Institutionalization, and Democratic Breakdown in the Interwar Period 

      Cornell, Agnes; Møller, Jørgen; Skaaning, Svend-Erik; Lindberg, Staffan I. (2016)
      The relationship between the strength of civil society and democratic survival in the interwar period has been much debated. Prominent studies have questioned the existence of a positive association, arguing that the ...

    • Democracy, Democratization, and Civil War 

      Krishnarajan, Suthan; Møller, Jørgen; Lykke Rørbæk, Lasse Lykke; Skaaning, Svend-Erik (2016)
      An influential body of scholarship has associated both democracy and democratization with civil war. Important findings include the so-called inverted U-shaped relationship between democracy-levels and civil war onset and ...

    • Dimensions of State Capacity and Modes of Democratic Breakdown 

      Delfs Erbo Andersen, David; Skaaning, Svend-Erik (The Quality of Government Institute (QoG), 2023-10)
      State weakness is often emphasized as a key determinant of democratic breakdowns. However, previous studies have failed to appreciate how different aspects of state weakness pose different challenges. Against this backdrop, ...

    • 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 ...

    • Going Historical: Measuring Democraticness before the Age of Mass Democracy 

      Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Møller, Jørgen; Skaaning, Svend-Erik (2016)
      Most studies of democratic developments are limited to the period after World War II. However, political regimes varied according to different aspects of democracy long before the establishment of modern liberal mass ...

    • Introducing the Historical Varieties of Democracy Dataset: Political Institutions in the Long 19th Century 

      Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Teorell, Jan; Cornell, Agnes; Gerring, John; Gjerløw, Haakon; Skaaning, Svend-Erik; Wig, Tore; Ziblatt, Daniel; Marquardt, Kyle L.; Pemstein, Dan; Seim, Brigitte (2018)
      The Historical Varieties of Democracy Dataset (Historical V-Dem) is a new dataset containing about 260 indicators, both factual and evaluative, describing various aspects of political regimes and state institutions. The ...

    • Local Democracy and Economic Growth 

      Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Gerring, John; Skaaning, Svend-Erik (2016)
      Theoretical work on the institutional sources of economic growth regards decentralization and democracy in a positive light. Despite this, empirical work shows that neither fiscal decentralization nor national democracy ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 Measurement: A Comparative Assessment of Relatively New Democracy Ratings based on Original Data 

      Møller, Jørgen; Skaaning, Svend-Erik (2021-05)
      A series of new democracy measures have been introduced in recent years, many based on previous measures, but some offering original data. This chapter provides critical discussion of three new measures based on original ...