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Establishing Pathways to Democracy Using Domination Analysis
(2020)
How does the order in which liberalization unfolds a ect the likelihood for a successful democratic
transition? Dahl was among the rst to argue that the sequence matters for the outcome
when it comes to democratization. ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Varieties of Democracy Core Civil Society Index
(2015-10)
This paper introduces the Core Civil Society Index (CCSI), a measure of the robustness of civil society, using indicators from the Varieties of Democracy battery on civil society. It begins with a discussion of the reemergence ...
When and Where do Elections Matter? A Global Test of the Democratization by Elections Hypothesis, 1900-2012
(2015)
To date studies assessing the democratizing effects of elections have produced mixed results. While findings suggest that successive uninterrupted election cycles in a global sample (Teorell and Hadenius 2009) and within ...
Can Efficient Institutions Induce Cooperation Among Low Trust Agents?
(2013-04)
The importance of political institutions for economic growth and social well-being has been demonstrated in a number of studies. Societies in which agents trust that other agents will collaborate in establishing and ...