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Investigating Sequences in Ordinal Data: A New Approach with Adapted Evolutionary Models
(2015)
This paper presents a new approach for studying sequences across combinations of binary and ordinal variables. The approach involves three novel methodologies (frequency analysis, graphical mapping of changes between ...
Sequential Requisites Analysis: A New Method for Analyzing Sequential Relationships in Ordinal Data
(2016)
This paper presents a new method inspired by evolutionary biology for analyzing longer sequences of requisites for the emergence of particular outcome variables across numerous combinations of ordinal variables in social ...
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 ...
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 ...
On Revolutions
(2018)
Sometimes the normal course of events is disrupted by a particularly swift and profound change. Historians have often referred to such changes as "revolutions" and, though they have identied many of them, they have rarely ...