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    • Can Courts be Bulwarks of Democracy? 

      Staton, Jeffrey K.; Reenock, Christopher; Holsinger, Jordan; Lindberg, Staffan (2018)
      Independent judges are thought to promote democratic regime survival by allowing perceived violations of rules limiting arbitrary power to be challenged non-violently in a fair setting, governed by transparent rules. Yet, ...
    • Institutional Subsystems and the Survival of Democracy: Do Political and Civil Society Matter? 

      Bernhard, Michael; Hicken, Allen; Reenock, Christopher; Lindberg, Staffan I. (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 ...