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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 ... -
Beyond First Elections: The Importance of Consistency in the Timing of Recurrent Elections
(2016)Is the regularity of elections a requisite for political stability? Scholars have empirically examined a number of features regarding elections in new democracies, including frequency, alternation, and orderliness, but ... -
Democratization in Conflict Studies: How Conceptualization Affects Operationalization and Testing Outcomes
(2016)Using the debate over democratization and conflict, we demonstrate how the connec- tion between conceptualization and operationalization can play a decisive role in the testing of falsifiable hypotheses. We discuss seven ... -
Choosing from the Menu of Manipulation: Explaining Incumbents’ Choices of Electoral Manipulation Tactics
(2016)How do political actors choose between different tactics of electoral manipulation, and how does the context in which elections take place shape those decisions? In this paper we argue that choices for specific manipulative ... -
A General Theory of Power Concentration: Demographic Influences on Political Organization
(2016)Why is the exercise of political power highly concentrated in some polities and widely dispersed in others? We argue that one persistent causal factor is demographic. Populous polities are characterized by more concentrated ... -
UN Electoral Assistance: Does it Matter for Election Management?
(2016)Between 2007 and 2014 the United Nations (UN) provided technical, financial and logistical assistance to half of all elections held outside of established democracies. Does UN Electoral Assistance (UNEA) substantially ... -
Measuring Subnational Democracy
(2016)Social scientists and practitioners have been limited in their work by the paucity of data about subnational institutions and practices. Such data could help scholars refine regime typologies, improve theories of democratization ... -
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 ... -
Social trust among non-Nordic immigrant youth – does context matter?
(2016-02)The question of whether ethnic heterogeneity impedes or enhances general trust has been studied extensively among the general population and among school-youth, but seldom among people in their 20s. This age group is however ... -
Can institutions pave the way for the young? Electoral systems and age representation in parliament
(2016-01)Middle-aged to senior men of the ethnic majority and higher income groups are generally overrepresented in parliaments. While research on group representation has examined issues of gender, economic standing and, more ... -
Strategies of Validation: Assessing the Varieties of Democracy Corruption Data
(2016)Social scientists face the challenge of determining whether their data are valid, yet they lack prac- tical guidance about how to do so. Existing publications on data validation provide mostly abstract information for ... -
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 ... -
Understanding illegality and corruption in forest management: A literature review
(2016-01)This review synthesizes the literature studying illegality and government corruption in forest man-agement. After discussing the theoretical connections between different types of corruption and illegal forest-related ... -
The V-Dem Measurement Model: Latent Variable Analysis for Cross-National and Cross-Temporal Expert-Coded Data
(2015)The Varieties of Democracy (V–Dem) project relies on country experts who code a host of ordinal variables, providing subjective ratings of latent—that is, not directly observable— regime characteristics over time. Sets of ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Measuring the Potential of Direct Democracy Around the World (1900-2014)
(2015)To what extent is direct democracy achieved in current polities? To answer this question, I develop an index, Direct Democracy Practice Potential (DDPP), which is applied to 200 polities worldwide. This index results from ... -
Does Democracy or Good Governance Enhance Health? New Empirical Evidence 1900-2012
(2015)It has been long debated whether regime types have impacts on human development. More specifically, compared to authoritarianism, are democracies more likely to provide public goods, including infrastructure that improve ...