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Harbors and Democracy
(2018)Although geography is widely viewed as an important factor in long-term development, little attention has been paid to its role in democratization. This study focuses on the possible impact of a feature of littoral geography: ... -
Hidden Treasure or Sinking Ship? Diagnosing the Study of Political Leadership
(2009-12)The study of leadership leads a rather languishing life in the discipline of political science. In this article, we explore the literature on political leadership in order to 1) identify the obstacles that have prevented ... -
Hits close to home: Shootings and support for the Sweden Democrats
(2020-12)Do instances of public gun violence increase support for Radical Right Parties? Using a pseudo-experimental design, this study investigates the impact of shootings in Sweden 2011-2018 on support for the Sweden Democrats. ... -
How and How Much Does Expert Error Matter? Implications for Quantitative Peace Research
(2019)Expert-coded datasets provide scholars with otherwise unavailable cross-national longitudinal data on important concepts. However, expert coders vary in their reliability and scale perception, potentially resulting in ... -
How corruption shapes the relationship between democracy and electrification
(2016-11)One of the central questions in research on the drivers behind public good provision is how political regimes and institutions impact the provision of public goods. Previous research within this field has shown that ... -
How Policy Legitimacy affects Policy Support Throughout the Policy Cycle
(2016-11)We analyze the importance of legitimacy and compare how drivers of public policy attitudes evolve across the policy process consisting of the input (i.e., the processes forgoing acquisition of power and the procedures ... -
How to Build Democracy after Authoritarian Breakdown: Insights from a Mixed Methods Approach
(2021-05)Mass movements that are able to overthrow a dictator do not always lead to democracy. Transition periods present narrow windows of opportunity in which activists face difficult decisions to build democracy and prevent ... -
How to Make Causal Inferences with Time-Series Cross-Sectional Data under Selection on Observables
(2018)Repeated measurements of the same countries, people, or groups over time are vital to many fields of political science. These measurements, sometimes called time-series cross-sectional (TSCS) data, allow researchers to ... -
The impact of organized crime on decent jobs for youth. Evidence from Italy
(2023-08)Young people face enormous difficulties in finding decent jobs both in developed and developing countries. The estimates indicate that 68 million young people globally are looking for a job; 123 million are working but ... -
Impartiality and Corruption in Sweden
(2013-10)This paper presents data on corruption and impartiality from a unique survey with local politicians in Sweden, which includes answers from about 78 percent of the 13 361 politicians active in the 290 Swedish municipalities. ... -
Information and Revolution
(2017)How does the Internet affect authoritarian regimes? This article argues that while the Internet has made mass mobilization easier than ever, its spread has also counter-intuitively allowed savvy authoritarian regimes to ... -
Informed Electoral Accountability and the Welfare State: A Conceptual Reorientation with Experimental and Real-World Findings
(2010-03)Retrospective electoral accountability was conceived as a mechanism that makes democracy work without highly informed citizens. However, recent theory suggests accountability in modern societies can be overwhelmingly ... -
Institution building in challenging contexts – energy for development in Tanzania
(2017-04)The Sustainable Development Goal 7 includes achieving universal electricity access, which will require the deployment of renewable energy sources for small-scale and decentralized electricity provision. However, rural ... -
Institutional Order in Episodes of Autocratization
(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? ... -
Institutional Quality Causes Social Trust: Evidence from Survey and Experimental Data on Trusting Under the Shadow of Doubt
(2020-12)Social trust is a crucial ingredient for successful collective action. What causes social trust to develop, however, remains poorly understood. The quality of political institutions has been proposed as a candidate driver ... -
Institutional Subsystems and the Survival of Democracy: Do Political and Civil Society Matter?
(2015)How do two central institutional subsystems of democracy – party systems and civil society – affect the persistence of democratic regimes? Despite the ability of each of these institutions to provide sources of countervailing ... -
Institutions of Electoral Integrity and Clientelism: The Role of Electoral Management Bodies
(2020-09)While clientelism is most often viewed as a symptom of traditional politics, empirical evidence suggests that it is actually a varied and multifaceted phenomenon, found in widely differing economic, political, and cultural ...