Identity, procedures and performance: how authoritarian regimes legitimize their rule

C Von Soest, J Grauvogel - Justifying Dictatorship, 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
Constructing convincing legitimacy claims is important for securing the stability of
authoritarian regimes. However, extant research has struggled to systematically analyse …

[LIVRE][B] Gender, informal institutions and political recruitment: Explaining male dominance in parliamentary representation

E Bjarnegård - 2013 - Springer
Parliaments around the world are still overwhelmingly populated by men, yet studies of male
dominance are much rarer than are studies of female under-representation. In this book …

Measuring polyarchy across the globe, 1900–2017

J Teorell, M Coppedge, S Lindberg… - Studies in Comparative …, 2019 - Springer
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 …

Conceptualizing and measuring democracy: A new approach

M Coppedge, J Gerring, D Altman, M Bernhard… - Perspectives on …, 2011 - cambridge.org
In the wake of the Cold War, democracy has gained the status of a mantra. Yet there is no
consensus about how to conceptualize and measure regimes such that meaningful …

[LIVRE][B] The quality of government: Corruption, social trust, and inequality in international perspective

B Rothstein - 2011 - books.google.com
The relationship between government, virtue, and wealth has held a special fascination
since Aristotle, and the importance of each frames policy debates today in both developed …

[LIVRE][B] Social science methodology: A unified framework

J Gerring - 2011 - books.google.com
John Gerring's exceptional textbook has been thoroughly revised in this second edition. It
offers a one-volume introduction to social science methodology relevant to the disciplines of …

Authoritarian regime types revisited: updated data in comparative perspective

M Wahman, J Teorell, A Hadenius - Contemporary Politics, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
This article introduces a modified and updated version of the authoritarian regime type
dataset first introduced by Hadenius and Teorell. The basic logic and merits of this dataset is …

Pathways from authoritarianism

A Hadenius, J Teorell - Journal of democracy, 2007 - muse.jhu.edu
This paper uses a new typology of authoritarian regimes to explore the extent to which
regime type explains the survival (and breakdown) of non-democratic regimes as well as the …

[HTML][HTML] Does foreign aid harm political institutions?

S Jones, F Tarp - Journal of Development Economics, 2016 - Elsevier
The notion that foreign aid harms the institutions of recipient governments remains
prevalent. We combine new disaggregated aid data and various metrics of political …

Mere description

J Gerring - British Journal of Political Science, 2012 - cambridge.org
This article attempts to reformulate and resuscitate the seemingly prosaic methodological
task of description, which is often derided in favour of causal analysis. First, the problem of …