Search
Now showing items 11-17 of 17
The Business Case for Democracy
(2020-10)
I present a business case for democracy, focusing on the impact of democracy on economic growth. This relationship is widely studied, and results are less clear for growth than many other development outcomes such as ...
Economic Crisis and Regime Transitions from Within
(2019-11)
We study how economic crises affect the likelihood of regime change brought about, in part or fully, by actors in the incumbent regime. While historically common, such processes remain far less studied than regime transitions ...
Economic Development and Democracy: An Electoral Connection
(2015)
This study takes a new tack on the question of modernization and democracy, focused on the outcome of theoretical interest. We argue that economic development affects the electoral component of democracy but has minimal ...
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 ...
Stairways to Denmark: Does the Sequence of State-building and Democratization Matter for Economic Development?
(2018)
Building effective state institutions before introducing democracy is widely presumed to improve different development outcomes. We discuss the assumptions that this prominent "stateness-first" argument rests upon and how ...
Party Strength and Economic Growth
(2015-09)
This study argues that strong parties play a critical role in fostering economic development. The theory explores how parties broaden the constituencies to which policy makers respond and help politicians to solve coordination ...
Autocracy and Variation in Economic Development Outcomes
(2018)
I discuss and analyze the vast variation in development outcomes among autocracies, focusing on economic growth. I highlight plausible explanations of this variation pertaining to features of the leader, institutions, or ...