Department of Political Science / Statsvetenskapliga institutionen: Recent submissions
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Deterring Dictatorship: Explaining Democratic Resilience since 1900
(V-Dem Institute, 2020-05)Democracy is under threat globally from democratically elected leaders engaging in erosion of media freedom, civil society, and the rule of law. What distinguishes democracies that prevail against the forces of autocratization? ... -
The V-Dem Measurement Model: Latent Variable Analysis for Cross-National and Cross-Temporal Expert-Coded Data
(2020-03)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 ... -
Democratic Legacies: Using Democratic Stock to Assess Norms, Growth, and Regime Trajectories
(2020-05)While social scientists often theorize about the enduring effects of past regime characteristics, conceptual issues and data limitations pose real challenges for assessing these legacies empirically. This paper introduces ... -
Regimes and Industrialization
(2020-04)A large literature addresses the impact of regimes on domestic policies and outcomes, e.g., education, health, inequality, redistribution, public spending, wages, infrastructure, volatility, productivity, and economic ... -
Autocratization by Decree: States of Emergency and Democratic Decline
(2020)States of emergency grant chief executives the power to bypass democratic constraints in order to combat existential threats. As such they are ideal tools to erode democratic institutions while maintaining the illusion of ... -
Conflict-resolvers or tools of electoral struggle?Swedish commissions of inquiry 1990-2016
(2020-04)Many countries face growing challenges of democratic governance from political polarizationand the increasingly complex nature of policy problems. The question is then how can governments build consensus and confer ... -
Municipally owned enterprises and heightened corruption risks
(2020-03)Some scholars argue that there areunattractive, unintended side-effects of the ‘quasi-privatizations’ that have been associated with New Public Management(NPM).One aspect of this question is the international trend towards ... -
Exploring the Impact of Political Regimes on Biodiversity
(2020-03)National governments are the main actors responsible for mapping and protecting their biodiversity, but countries differ in their capacity, willingness, and effectiveness to do so. We quantify the global biodiversity managed ... -
Successful and Failed Episodes of Democratization: Conceptualization, Identification, and Description
(2020)What explains successful democratization? This paper makes four contributions towards providing more sophisticated answers to this question. Building on the comparative case study and large-N literature, it first presents ... -
Visualizing Authority Patterns over Space and Time
(2020)Unidimensional measures of democracy fail to account for the complex and varied nature of political systems. This article disaggregates the concept of democracy and proposes a multidimensional conceptualization to account ... -
Establishing Pathways to Democracy Using Domination Analysis
(2020)How does the order in which liberalization unfolds a ect the likelihood for a successful democratic transition? Dahl was among the rst to argue that the sequence matters for the outcome when it comes to democratization. ... -
Social trust - The Nordic Gold?
(2020-01)Interpersonal trust is among the highest in the world in Scandinavia. Since everything in a society functions better with high trust lowering all transaction costs trustful Scandinavi-ans is truly a Nordic Gold. However, ... -
Civil Society and Post-Independence Democracy Levels
(2020-01)The role of civil society for the consolidation of democracy is contested. Some argue that Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) are important “schools of democracy” and may foster democratic consolidation. Others emphasize ... -
Taxation and Turnout in Swedish Municipalities
(2019-12)The link between taxation and representation is considered foundational to the emergence of demo-cratic governance. Nevertheless, the empirical relationship between taxation and the extent to which citizens actually exert ... -
The Link between Ethnic Fractionalization and Corruption Revised: Ethnic Voting in Africa
(2019-12)This paper revisits the relationship between ethnic fractionalization and corruption. Earlier literature argues that ethnic fractionalization leads to corruption via mechanisms involving ethnic in-groupfavoritism. ... -
2The effect of gender on corruption: Sorting out explanations for gender differences with new exper-imental research
(2019-12)An extensive literature demonstrates a relationship between gender and corruption, with women be-ing less involved in corrupt transactions than men. There are two major ways of explaining this cor-relation; one emphasizes ... -
Characterizing and Assessing Temporal Heterogeneity: Introducing a Change Point Framework, with Applications on the Study of Democratization
(2019)Various theories in political science point to temporal heterogeneity in relationships of interest. Yet, empirical research typically ignores such heterogeneity or employs fairly crude measures to evaluate it. Advances in ... -
Economic Crisis and Regime Transitions from Within
(2019-11)We study how economic crises affect the likelihood of regime change brought about, in part or fully, by actors in the incumbent regime. While historically common, such processes remain far less studied than regime transitions ... -
Democracy and Populism: Testing a Contentious Relationship
(2019)The phenomenon of populism and its relationship with modern democracy has gained considerable attention in recent years. This paper aims at advancing our understanding of how populism affects different models of democracy ...