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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 ...
Democracy at Dusk?
(2017)
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 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 ...
Neopatrimonialism and Democracy: An Empirical Investigation of Africa's Political Regimes
(2017)
One of the most common adjectives used to describe democracy in sub-Saharan Africa is "neopatrimonial". Characterized by strong executives, pervasive clientelism and use of state resources for political legitimation (Bratton ...