Current scholarship on elections in authoritarian regimes has focused on exploring the
relationship between elections and democratization, and it has generally used analytical …

The second half of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century have
witnessed an unprecedented expansion of one-party autocracies. One-party regimes have …

This article introduces a novel conceptualization of democratic resilience-a two-stage
process where democracies avoid democratic declines altogether or avert democratic …

We analyze the adoption of nonpharmaceutical interventions in the Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries during the early phase of the …

We provide evidence that democracy has a positive effect on GDP per capita. Our dynamic
panel strategy controls for country fixed effects and the rich dynamics of GDP, which …

This article analyses the state of democracy in the world in 2019. We demonstrate that the
“third wave of autocratization” is accelerating and deepening. The dramatic loss of eight …

This article updates and describes a widely used data set on democracy. Covering 1800–
2007 and 219 countries, it represents the most comprehensive dichotomous measure of …

A common practice in applied economics research consists of replacing a suspected
simultaneously determined explanatory variable with its lagged value. This note …

Democratization studies became a sub-field of political science/international relations only
very gradually. Despite the rich pool of data generated by the early 'third wave'transitions in …

Since Beck, Katz, and Tucker (1998), the standard method for modeling time dependence in
binary data has been to incorporate time dummies or splined time in logistic regressions …