Constitution-making is a ubiquitous but poorly understood phenomenon. There is much
speculation but relatively little evidence about the impact of different design processes on …

The democratization literature has increased our understanding of the role of institutional
variables in the study of democratic sustainability. Debates about the dangers of …

How do duly elected rulers weaken checks on executive power, curtail civil and political
liberties, and undermine the integrity of the electoral process? Drawing on sixteen cases of …

Although democracy is a widely held value, concrete measurement of it is elusive. Gerardo
L. Munck's constructive assessment of the methods used to measure democracies promises …

The view that Russia has taken a decisive shift towards authoritarianism may be premature,
but there is no doubt that its democracy is in crisis. In this original and dynamic analysis of …

How, to what extent, and why have the forms of political authority in the non-Baltic post-
Soviet states changed since 1991? What impact has Russia had on such changes? Drawing …

The goal of this article is to understand which combinations of explanatory conditions
account for the qualitative differences within forms of democratic breakdown (ie, transition …

Since the end of the Cold War, international organizations (IOs) have engaged in
unprecedented levels of democracy promotion, and research overwhelmingly links them to …

The initial optimism that greeted the onset of the “Third Wave” of democratization has cooled
with the instability of many new democracies and the proliferation of stable competitive …

The Varieties of Democracy project (V-Dem) pioneered new ways to conceptualize and
measure democracy, producing a multidimensional and disaggregated data set on …