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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 ...
A Quality of Government Peace? Bringing the State Back Into the Study of Inter-State Armed Conflict
(2010-09)
Domestically, democracy or democratization has not proved as successful in bringing
about preferred economic and social consequences as has “good governance” and
quality of government. Within the field of international ...
What is Quality of Government? A Theory of Impartial Political Institutions
(2005)
The last years have seen a growth in research on “good governance” and the quality
of government institutions. This development has been propelled by empirical
findings that such institutions might hold the key to ...
Introducing the Historical Varieties of Democracy Dataset: Political Institutions in the Long 19th Century
(2018)
The Historical Varieties of Democracy Dataset (Historical V-Dem) is a new dataset containing about 260 indicators, both factual and evaluative, describing various aspects of political regimes and state institutions. The ...
Electoral Democracy and Human Development
(2015)
This study attempts to reconcile competing positions in the debate over whether democracy improves human development by showing that some aspects of democracy – but not others – affect human development. Specifically, we ...
THE QOG EXPERT SURVEY II Report
(2015)
THE QUALITY OF GOVERNMENT EXPERT SUR-VEY II IN BRIEF
• The Quality of Government Expert Survey II (QoG Expert Survey II) focuses on the organizational design of public bureaucracies and bureaucratic behavior on countries ...
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 ...
Reassessing the Democratic Peace: A Novel Test Based on the Varieties of Democracy Data
(2018)
The democratic peace is one of the most robust findings in international relations. Yet it suffers from two important limitations. First, even those who fully embrace the democratic peace have difficulty precisely identifying ...