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Deterring Dictatorship: Explaining Democratic Resilience since 1900
(V-Dem Institute, 2020-05)
Democracy is under threat globally from democratically elected leaders engaging in erosion of media freedom, civil society, and the rule of law. What distinguishes democracies that prevail against the forces of autocratization? ...
Successful and Failed Episodes of Democratization: Conceptualization, Identification, and Description
(2020)
What explains successful democratization? This paper makes four contributions towards providing more sophisticated answers to this question. Building on the comparative case study and large-N literature, it first presents ...
Democratic Legacies: Using Democratic Stock to Assess Norms, Growth, and Regime Trajectories
(2020-05)
While social scientists often theorize about the enduring effects of past regime characteristics, conceptual issues and data limitations pose real challenges for assessing these legacies empirically. This paper introduces ...
Establishing Pathways to Democracy Using Domination Analysis
(2020)
How does the order in which liberalization unfolds a ect the likelihood for a successful democratic
transition? Dahl was among the rst to argue that the sequence matters for the outcome
when it comes to democratization. ...
Empirical Dimensions of Electoral Democracy
(2020-09)
This paper investigates conceptual ambiguities concerning the dimensionality of democracy and what it can tell us about political development. We explore variation in components of the Electoral Democracy Index from the ...
Visualizing Authority Patterns over Space and Time
(2020)
Unidimensional measures of democracy fail to account for the complex and varied nature of political systems. This article disaggregates the concept of democracy and proposes a multidimensional conceptualization to account ...