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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 ...
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 ...
Varieties of Democratic Diffusion: Colonial and Neighbor Networks
(2016)
Numerous studies have reported that countries tend to become more similar to their immediate geographic neighbors with respect to democracy. We show that a similar process of mutual adjustment can be found within very ...
Measuring Political Participation in Southern Europe: The Varieties of Democracy Approach
(2015)
Most schools of democratic theory consider political participation to have a positive impact in deepening democracy. Political participation makes democracies more accountable and freer, as well as creating more engaged, ...
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 ...
Women’s Political Empowerment: A New Global Index, 1900-2012
(2015)
The V-Dem index on women’s political empowerment provides information about women’s civil liberties, civil society participation, and political participation globally. Spanning from 1900 to 2012, three dimensions of ...
Experts, Coders, and Crowds: An analysis of substitutability
(2017)
Recent work suggests that crowd workers can replace experts and trained coders in common coding tasks. However, while many political science applications require coders to both and relevant information and provide judgment, ...