Department of Political Science / Statsvetenskapliga institutionen: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Generalized Trust in Surveys: From Scales to Dragons
(2015-12-21)Generalized trust has been one of the frequently researched attitudes in political and social sciences. Although this type of trust saw its real breakthrough in the theories about social capital, offered by Robert D. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
O Brasil na perspectiva do Projeto Variedades da Democracia
(2015)In this article we present results for Brazil collected by the Varieties of Democracy project. We describe the historical evolution of democracy in Brazil from 1900 to 2012, focusing on its five main components (electoral, ... -
Corruption in Governance of the Commons: Consequences and Reform Challenges
(2015-11-13)Research on governance of common-pool resources (CPRs) has discussed the design of regulations that govern the usage of CPRs and the need to enforce such rules. However, the focus on self-management in this literature may ... -
Den goda medborgaren i det västerländska samhället
(2015-11-09)This thesis is about the good citizen in a typical Western society. This type of society is characterized by some kind of representative democracy, some kind of market economy, and a relatively large amount of personal ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Party Strength and Economic Growth
(2015-09)This study argues that strong parties play a critical role in fostering economic development. The theory explores how parties broaden the constituencies to which policy makers respond and help politicians to solve coordination ... -
Does Good Auditing Generate Quality of Government?
(2015-08)Despite the large focus in research and practice on audit, inspections and oversight activities there has been few empirical studies showing the effects of auditing on public sector performance. Hence, we have little ...