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Choosing from the Menu of Manipulation: Explaining Incumbents’ Choices of Electoral Manipulation Tactics
van Ham, Carolien; Lindberg, Staffan I. (2016)How do political actors choose between different tactics of electoral manipulation, and how does the context in which elections take place shape those decisions? In this paper we argue that choices for specific manipulative ... -
Democracy Aid Effectiveness: Variation Across Regime Types
Lührmann, Anna; McMann, Kelly; van Ham, Carolien (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 ... -
State Capacity, Incumbent Turnover and Democratic Change in Authoritarian Elections
van Ham, Carolien; Seim, Brigitte (2017)Under what conditions do elections lead to democratization or conversely, sustain authoritarianism? State capacity may be a crucial intervening variable affecting the democratizing power of elections in authoritarian ...