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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 ...
Democracy for All?
(2018)