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Danger all Along. How foreign military threats and domestic power-sharing shape autocratic state-building.
(2022-12)Standard international relations accounts hold that military buildup by neighboring states leads to increased state-building efforts by authoritarian rulers. In contrast, this study shows that only some dictators will ... -
Dealing with Intergenerational Disagreements. Parental Authority in Swedish Families
(Göteborgs universitet. Psykologiska institutionen, 2004)This thesis examined two key aspects of intergenerational disagreements. The first aspect dealt with Swedish parents' preferences for discipline with respect to the national emphasis on child democracy. Parents of preschool ... -
Decentralization, corruption, and the role of democracy
(2015-08)In this paper, I consider how the level of democracy moderates the relationship between decentralization and corruption. While there is an expectation within the policy community that decentralization prevents corruption, ... -
Decentralization: An Antidote to Corruption in Water Services? A Comparative Study of the Enabling Environment for Corruption at Different Levels of Government
(2012-02)In the past two decades a common policy recommendation for improving water governance has been to shift the authority over water services to sub-national government departments. The advice to decentralize builds on ... -
Deliberation or Jurisdiction? Testing the effectiveness of different routes towards gender equality
(2009-06)The point of departure for this paper is current debates in feminist research on hindering and enabling factors for the transformation of society in women-friendly directions. I develop two theoretically founded routes ... -
Deliberativ undervisning – en empirisk studie
(2012-11-16)Since the early 2000s, the deliberative turn in democratic theory has influenced the debate on teaching. The proponents of deliberation in education have argued that deliberative teaching both enhances subject knowledge ... -
Delivering Stability: Primogeniture and autocratic survival in European monarchies 1000-1800
(2012-04)Despite being the probably most common form of political rule in history, monarchies remain understudied in terms of how constitutional arrangements affect leader survival. In this paper, we examine if the principle of ... -
Deltagardemokratiska och systemiska metoder för komplexa samhällsfrågor och samhällsentreprenörskap. Ett komparativt perspektiv
(2013)The study: ”Deltagardemokratiska och systemiska metoder för komplexa samhällsfrågor och samhällsentreprenörskap. Ettkomparativtperspektiv” (Participatory and systemic methods for complex societal issues and societal ... -
Democracy Aid Effectiveness: Variation Across Regime Types
(2017)Large-N studies suggest that democracy aid is effective, while multiple small-N investigations call such findings into question. This paper accounts for this contradiction and significantly improves our understanding of ... -
Democracy and Corruption: A Global Time-Series Analysis with V-Dem Data
(2017)Theory predicts democracy should reduce corruption. Yet, numerous scholars have found empirically that corruption decreases at high levels of democracy but actually increases at low levels. A key weaknesses of studies ... -
Democracy and Economic Development
(2013-02)Is democracy favorable or adverse for the environment? While some studies find democracy to increase the likelihood of achieving sustainable development, others propose that democracy rather has negative effects on the ... -
Democracy and Populism: Testing a Contentious Relationship
(2019)The phenomenon of populism and its relationship with modern democracy has gained considerable attention in recent years. This paper aims at advancing our understanding of how populism affects different models of democracy ... -
Democracy at Dusk?
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Democracy Doesn’t Always Happen Over Night: Regime Change in Stages and Economic Growth
(V-Dem Institute, 2021-02)We motivate and empirically analyse the idea that democratic regime change is not a dis-crete event but a two-stage process: in the first stage, autocracies enter into an ‘episode’ of political liberalization which can last ... -
Democracy for All?
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Democracy in Action: Decentralisation in Post-Conflict Cambodia
(2012-01-27)The process of democratisation in post-conflict Cambodia has been problematic. Almost two decades after the UN-led intervention in 1993, democracy in Cambodia remains shallow, as evidenced by various studies. Three main ... -
Democracy Promotion and Electoral Quality: A Disaggregated Analysis
(2020-09)The international community spends significant sums of money on democracy promotion and support, focusing especially on producing competitive and transparent electoral environments in the developing world. In theory, this ... -
Democracy, Bureaucratic Capacity and Environmental Quality
(2015)This paper explores the link between democracy, bureaucratic capacity and environmental quality. While many previous empirical studies traditionally have focused on either the democracy or bureaucratic capacity ... -
Democracy, Democratization, and Civil War
(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 ...