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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 ...
A Framework for Understanding Regime Transformation: Introducing the ERT Dataset
(V-Dem Institute, 2021-02)
Gradual processes of democratization and autocratization have gained increased attention in the literature. Assessing such processes in a comparative framework remains a challenge, however, due to their under-conceptualization ...
MPs, Clientelism, and Collective Goods
(2011-11)
The present analysis indicates that MPs in Ghana's young democracy has begun to act on the implications of this accountability and that voters in this African country do evaluate their political leaders not only on personal ...
Suicide by Competition? Authoritarian Institutional Adaptation and Regime Fragility
(2016)
While it is clear that contemporary authoritarian incumbents use democratic emulation as a
strategy in the hopes of stabilizing and extending their tenure in power, this does not mean
it is always effective. Indeed, an ...
Sequential Requisites Analysis: A New Method for Analyzing Sequential Relationships in Ordinal Data
(2016)
This paper presents a new method inspired by evolutionary biology for analyzing longer sequences of requisites for the emergence of particular outcome variables across numerous combinations of ordinal variables in social ...
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 ...
No Democratic Transition Without Women’s Rights: A Global Sequence Analysis 1900-2012
(2015-09)
What determines countries’ successful transition to democracy? Research has focused on socioeconomic and institutional factors, yet the assumption that political liberalization has to precede democratization has not been ...
Measuring Electoral Democracy with V-Dem Data: Introducing a New Polyarchy Index
(2016)
This paper presents a new measure of electoral democracy, or "polyarchy", for a global sample of 173 countries from 1900 to the present based on the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) data, enabling us to address several ...
Civil Society, Party Institutionalization, and Democratic Breakdown in the Interwar Period
(2016)
The relationship between the strength of civil society and democratic survival in the interwar period has been much debated. Prominent studies have questioned the existence of a positive association, arguing that the ...
Are Swing Voters Instruments of Democracy or Farmers of Clientelism? Evidence from Ghana
(2010-06)
This paper is one of the first to systematically address the question of whether
strength of ethnic identity, political parties’ candidates campaign strategies, poverty,
or evaluation of clientelism versus collective/public ...