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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 ...
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 ...