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How to Build Democracy after Authoritarian Breakdown: Insights from a Mixed Methods Approach
(2021-05)
Mass movements that are able to overthrow a dictator do not always lead to democracy. Transition periods present narrow windows of opportunity in which activists face difficult decisions to build democracy and prevent ...
Democracy at Dusk?
(2017)
When Democracy has a Fever: States of Emergency as a Symptom and Accelerator of Autocratization
(2019)
States of emergency grant chief executives the power to circumvent democratic constraints in order to combat existential threats. As such they are ideal tools to erode democratic institutions while maintaining the illusion ...
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 ...
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 ...
Successful and Failed Episodes of Democratization: Conceptualization, Identification, and Description
(2018)
What explains successful democratization? Answering this requires that researchers identify not only countries that successfully transitioned to democracy, but also those that began to liberalize—that initiated institutional ...
Constraining Governments: New indices of vertical, horizontal and diagonal accountability
(2017)
Accountability - constraints on the government’s use of political power - is one of the cornerstones of good governance. However, conceptual stretching and a lack of reliable measures have limited cross-national research ...
Regime Legitimation Strategies (RLS) 1900 to 2018
(2019)
In this paper we introduce new expert-coded measures of regime legitimation strategies for 179 countries in the world from 1900 up until 2018 that are comparable across time and space. Country experts have rated the extent ...
Keeping the Democratic Façade: Contemporary Autocratization as a Game of Deception
(2018)
Less than thirty years after Fukuyama and others declared liberal democracy’s eternal dominance, a third wave of autocratization is manifest. Gradual declines of democratic regime attributes characterize contemporary ...