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Gender Diversity on High Courts
(2017)
Increasing the diversity of political institutions is believed to improve the quality of political discourse and, subsequently, the quality of political outcomes. Moreover, the presence of diverse officials in positions ...
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 ...
V-Dem Comparisons and Contrasts with Other Measurement Projects
(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 ...
Democracy at Dusk?
(2017)
The Accountability Sequence: From De-jure to De-facto Constraints on Governments
(2017)
Accountability is one of the cornerstones of good governance. Establishing accountable governments is a top priority on the international development agenda. Yet, scholars and democracy practitioners know little about how ...
Neopatrimonialism and Democracy: An Empirical Investigation of Africa's Political Regimes
(2017)
One of the most common adjectives used to describe democracy in sub-Saharan Africa is "neopatrimonial". Characterized by strong executives, pervasive clientelism and use of state resources for political legitimation (Bratton ...
Regimes In the World (RIW): A Robust Regime Type Measure based on V-Dem
(2017)
Classifying political regimes has never been as difficult as in this day and age. Most regimes in the world now hold de-jure multiparty elections with universal suffrage. Yet, in some countries these elections ensure that ...
Experts, Coders, and Crowds: An analysis of substitutability
(2017)
Recent work suggests that crowd workers can replace experts and trained coders in common coding tasks. However, while many political science applications require coders to both and relevant information and provide judgment, ...