▪ Abstract Prominent scholars engaged in comparative research on democratic regimes are
in sharp disagreement over the choice between a dichotomous or graded approach to the …

In recent years scholarly attention has shifted from the study of democratization to the
phenomenon of electoral authoritarianism. In these regimes, regular elections are held for …

Many fear that democracies are suffering from a legitimacy crisis. This book focuses
on'democratic deficits', reflecting how far the perceived democratic performance of any state …

This article provides a new conceptualization of regime transformation that allows scholars
to address democratization and autocratization as related but obverse processes. We …

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 …

This paper presents a new measure polyarchy for a global sample of 182 countries from
1900 to 2017 based on the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) data, deriving from an expert …

We address the strengths and weaknesses of the main available measures of political
regime and extend the dichotomous regime classification first introduced in Alvarez et …

Trust is a multifacted concept. Mostly it is conceived as a" rational" response to trustworthy
behavior by others. I offer an argument and evidence that there is another and more …

Scholars routinely make claims that presuppose the validity of the observations and
measurements that operationalize their concepts. Yet, despite recent advances in political …

What makes political regimes rise, endure, and fall? The main question is whether the
observed close relation between levels of economic development and the incidence of …